# Australian Prof. Ajay Narendra discusses his team's discovery of the 'ballista spider'

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Podcast: [Weekend Edition Saturday](https://stenobird.com/podcast/weekend-edition-saturday-1453543)
Published: 2026-06-27T11:40:23+00:00
Episode link: https://www.kuow.org/stories/australian-prof-ajay-narendra-discusses-his-team-s-discovery-of-the-ballista-spider
Audio file: https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesat/2026/06/20260627_wesat_australian_prof._ajay_narendra_discusses_his_team_s_discovery_of_the_ballista_spider.mp3?t=progseg&e=nx-s1-5815052&p=7&seg=15&d=232&size=3716955
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## Resource

Prof. Ajay Narendra from Macquarie University in Australia tells NPR about his team's discovery of a particularly rare, and high-powered, hunting method of the informally named "ballista spider."

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