An unusual spider lurks in Madagascar’s rainforests.
With an elongated neck and a curved, beak-like mouth, this spider bears a striking resemblance to a pelican. But to other arachnids, these “pelican spiders” look like an eight-legged nightmare — if they even see them coming.
The tiny assassins hunt other spiders, and they use their strange features to help them do it.
Pelican spiders stalk their victims, often by following a line of web left by the unwitting target. When the predator finds its prey, it raises one of its elongated jaws and stabs the spider with a venom-tipped fang. The hunter dangles its prize and waits for it to die before moving in to eat it.=read more
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