Researchers have identified a newly recognised spider that uses a spring-powered silk snare to launch and capture aggressive green tree ants in a split second.

A mother-daughter team of citizen scientists, Jan Pope and Sophie Kalkowski-Pope of Citizens of the Reef, have identified what researchers believe is the world's largest documented coral colony on the Great Barrier Reef near Cairns, Queensland. The massive single colony of Pavona clavus, commonly known as "elephant skin" coral, stretches about 364