There are spiders that eat snakes. Observations of snake-eating spiders have been reported around the world. Researchers consolidated and analyzed over 300 reports of this unusual predation strategy.

Researchers in Brazil detailed the first documented case of a spider found killing and eating a snake in the wild. A study published in the journal Herpetology Notes details what Leandro Malta Borges, ...

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A spindly spider has taken on a deadly brown snake - and won - in a very Australian telling of the story of David and Goliath. Farmer Patrick Lees, from Weethalle about 400 kilometres west of Sydney, ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Spiders and snakes alone tend to evoke a lot of fear, but imagine how a West Mobile couple felt when they spotted a snake entangled in a spider’s web on their front porch! Even ...