Fish-Hunting Spiders Are Found On Every Continent But Antarctica, And Include Some Of The Rarest In The World

Spiders are remarkable creatures. Resilient, innovative, and packed full of biological engineering that makes biomimeticists hot under the collar (and occasionally create grim “ necrobots ”). For some, however, they trigger the heebie-jeebies, and unfortunately, I don’t think the fish-eating spiders will help here. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Yes, in case this is the first you’re hearing of it, there are indeed spiders out there that hunt, kill, and eat fish . They’re partial to tadpoles, amphibians like frogs, and even crayfish . Oh yes.

In fact, some of these spiders are such proficient hunters that they can even take down prey that’s five times their size . That accolade goes to the Dolomedes spiders