In the Amazon canopy a newly named spider called Taczanowskia waska was found mimicking not another animal but a parasitic fungus, copying both how the fungus looks and how it behaves

Mimicry in the animal kingdom follows a fairly predictable grammar. An organism resembles something dangerous, something inedible, or something it wants to eat. Biologists have spent two centuries cataloguing the variations: butterflies that look like monarchs, spiders that walk like ants, orchids that smell like female bees. What researchers had not documented, until earlier this [...] The post In the Amazon canopy a newly named spider called Taczanowskia waska was found mimicking not another a