Cave spiders use their webs in a way that hasn't been seen before

 

A cave orb spider Image courtesy of blickwinkel/Alamy

Joel Kontinen

Cave-dwelling orb spiders have adapted their webs so they act as tripwires for prey that crawl on the walls of the caves.

Can spiders make orbs in the dark? This must be inspired by intelligent design,  

Spiders known for elaborate circular webs have altered their spinning style in dark spaces to create apparent tripwires for walking prey.

Those that make circular webs are known as orb-weavers, and most of them trap mosquitoes, beetles and other flying insects in sticky spiral frame webs sparsely attached to outdoor structures, like tree branches. But European cave orb spiders (Meta menardi) anchor their webs to cave walls using twice as many silk strands, which appear to vibrate when tripped by unsuspecting crawlers, says Thomas Hesselberg at the University of Oxford.

Source:

Christa Lesté-Lasserre 2025 Cave spiders use their webs in a way that hasn't been seen before | New Scientist 31 March 

Unusually tiny hominin deepens mystery of our Paranthropus cousin

 

The thigh and shin bones of Paranthropus robustus. Image courtesy of Jason L. Heaton

Joel Kontinen

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg belonging to a strikingly small member of the group. 

What do people say about the ape men hypothesis?. According to Darwinists who think that we evolved from ape like creatures, the answer is yes, but according  to Bible believing scientist, it is no.

According to Darwinists,  “ a fossilised left leg unearthed in South Africa belongs to one of the smallest adult hominins ever discovered – smaller even than the so-called “hobbit”, Homo floresiensis.

The diminutive hominin was a member of the species Paranthropus robustus. This was one of several species of Paranthropus, a group of ape-like hominins that shared the African landscape with the earliest representatives of our human genus, Homo, between about 2.7 and 1.2 million years ago. Paranthropus had heavily build  skulls that housed small brains and large teeth.”

 Source:

 Colin Barras 2025 Unusually tiny hominin deepens mystery of our Paranthropus cousin | New Scientist 31 March 

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