Gallery: Go Deep Into the Amazon With Scientists Unraveling a Creepy Mystery
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Geena Hill and Lary Reeves photograph spiders that the team has been monitoring throughout the trip. Twice a day, the scientists tried to photograph the arachnids' webs to see how they changed and grew throughout the week.
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Lary Reeves and Phil Torres try to catch a glimpse of a tarantula in its burrow using a long, snake-like camera with a light attached. While they managed to see it, they were unable to lure it out to better identify it.
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Phil Torres inspects a tiny, circular web-tower structure on a cecropia tree.
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Rainforest guide and naturalist Marlene Huaman lures a tarantula out of its burrow using a thin stick.
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Lary Reeves sits under a makeshift shelter as he looks out from Fish Pond Island, across the Tambopata river, at a clay lick that's regularly populated by parrots and other wildlife.
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Trees overhead, reflected in a scope the team used to get a better view of a clay lick where many wild creatures go to ingest sodium from the clay.
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A wild peccary pauses on a trail in the rainforest, separated from its herd.
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Jeff Cremer (right) looks on and Phil Torres relaxes as Lary Reeves fishes for piranha from the back of a catamaran.
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Geena Hill tries her hand at fishing for piranha in a lake off the Tambopata river. Fishing in the lake is largely catch-and-release.
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Geena Hill, Phil Torres, and Lary Reeves joke around as they rest through the midday at the Tambopata Research Center.
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The rain pours -- hard -- several times a day at the research center, giving scientists pause before they head out into the rainforest.
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During a sudden downpour in the rainforest, Jeff Cremer and rainforest guide Marlene Huaman crouch underneath an umbrella as Phil Torres tries to stay dry with a parka.
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Rainforest guide Marlene Huaman trudges through mud and rain to lead the team down half-washed-out trails.
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Phil Torres and Jeff Cremer boost Lary Reeves up a tree in an attempt to catch a large lizard. Reeves eventually caught and photographed the creature, releasing it back into the tree shortly thereafter.
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A leaf-footed bug (family *Coreidae*), spotted along one of the many trails into the rainforest.
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Lary Reeves photographs a potoo bird, spotted just off the island trail in the dark of night. While we were heading back to our boat on that last evening, Phil Torres mimicked the potoo's melancholic call and the bird responded.
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Jeff Cremer photographs a glass frog (known for its semi-clear skin) on Lary Reeves' glasses.
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Lary Reeves sits on the floor during communal dinner so that he can take advantage of the limited access to power and internet to get some work done.
