The study also explains that the fish-eating spiders were also gifted with powerful neurotoxins and enzymes which allow them to kill and digest fish bigger and heavier than their own body weight. The fish are reportedly even twice as long as the fish-eating spiders.
The study on the fish-eating spiders is named 'Fish Predation by Semi-Aquatic Spiders: A Global Pattern.' It has been published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Fish-eating spiders have fascinated scientists Martin Nyffeler and Bradley J. Pusey hence their extensive research. Both scientists wrote in PLoS ONE that "the notion of fish-catching spiders is rather peculiar if we consider that spiders, as a whole, are traditionally viewed as the classic example of a predator that feeds on insects."
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