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.
