Not content with their stereotyped image as bug-hunters, up to 24 species of spiders actually go fishing — one even snatches unsuspecting goldfish from garden ponds.
Researchers documented the spiders’ wide-ranging palate in a study detailing how at least two dozen species of spiders — on every continent but Antarctica — eat small freshwater fish that often exceed them in size.
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