A. brevis ants waiting to ambush their giant prey. Schmidt et al. Crucial to the success of these “group ambush” attacks is the location of the traps. The ants set up shop in the branches of plants ...

Tropical ants build and set a trap that resembles a medieval torture rack. They use this ingenious setup to capture insect prey much larger than themselves, then rip the victim apart. These ants have ...

Chris Akins was a little nervous when he got stopped by a police officer while hauling his medieval English project around town in the back of his truck. It turned out the police officer wasn’t sure ...

There’s a brutal scene at the end of Braveheart where a jacked-up Mel Gibson meets his painful end by getting ripped to literal pieces on the most merciless of medieval torture contraptions, the rack.