Gallery: Spiders Are Catching and Eating Fish on Every Continent Except Antarctica

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    Photo by Ed Germain
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    An adult male of the Ancylometes genus with with a delicious characiform near Samona Lodge, Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve, Ecuador.
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    Photo by Ed Germain
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    The Ancylometes taking his characiform somewhere nice and dry to pump full of digestive enzymes and suck out its innards.
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    Photo by Tim Wohlberg
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    Another view of the Ancylometes genus near Samona Lodge, Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve, Ecuador.
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    Photo by Peter Liley
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    Dolomedes facetus captured pond fish (genus Xiphophorus) in garden pond near Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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    Photo by Jason Butler
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    Dolomedes tenebrosus devouring creek chub (Semotilus atromaculatus) on bank of Bullskin Creek near Brutus, Kentucky.
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    Photo by Solimary Garcia Hernandez
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    A fish-eating spider from the Trechalea genus eating a characiform while sitting on a rock in middle of small river in central Colombia.
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