It was pitch-black and quiet, aside from the musical chorus from creatures deep inside the Amazon jungle in southeastern Peru. The paper detailed the team’s observed interactions in the Amazon over the past several years between small vertebrates and arthropods. He said his sister, Maggie, who was also on the research team, pulled out her camera and started filming. As for the searing image of a giant spider carting off a cute, furry critter, Rabosky, who leads the research team, said it’s not as scary as it may seem. “Our biases lead us to think this is a scarier predation than anything else out there,” he said.

Source: Washington Post March 02, 2019 20:48 UTC