Massive tarantula devours 15 inch SNAKE in world first

You might not immediately be able to tell what it  is but we can tell you that you are in fact looking at a world first. Believe it or not, the grim spectacle above is a TARANTULA eating the body of a SNAKE in Brazil – the first time such a scenario has been seen in the wild. The discovery, which happened in early December but has only just been reported,  was made by a team of scientists in the far south of Brazil. Under a rock they found the 15  inch Almaden ground snake being preyed up by the hand-sized Grammostola tarantula.The species was only discovered last year and thought to only live in Uruguay.

Photo: Leandro Malta Borges