Giant Spider Drags Away, Eats Opossum in Video Posted Online
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You know what’s really scary? An enormous spider carrying around opossum the size of a small child, then EATING IT!
Scientists have posted a video online, which shows a tarantula about the size of a dinner plate dragging away an opossum for its supper.
A group of University of Michigan-led biologists were documenting Amazonian arthropod predators — mostly large spiders, centipedes and a giant water bug — preying on frogs, lizards and snakes near the Andes foothills in Peru when they “heard some scrabbling in the leaf litter” and came across the nightmarish eight-legged creature.
“We looked over and we saw a large tarantula on top of an opossum,” researcher Michael Grundler said. “The opossum had already been grasped by the tarantula and was still struggling weakly at that point, but after about 30 seconds it stopped kicking.”
Wanna see for yourself?
Okay, well we’ll never sleep peacefully again.
Hammer and Fake Nigel have more on the giant spider and another terrifying alligator story out of Georgia in today’s edition of “Damn Nature, You Scary!”
