WATCH: Terrifying moment large spider drags opossum to its death
Updated | By The Workzone with Alex Jay
This unsettling video is the first-ever documentation of a large mygalomorph spider preying on an opossum.
A gigantic tarantula attacked and killed an opossum mouse in a video captured by biologists from the University of Michigan in the Amazon rainforest.
The researchers shared the video along with a paper in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation describing the bizarre encounter as something from a horror movie.
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Apparently, the spider killed the mouse by striking it on its neck before dragging it away into the bushes.
Watch the video below.
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