In 2011, a team of zoologists trudging through a rainforest near Mengla, China stumbled upon four dried leaves attached to a twig. Leaves adorning a twig is completely within the bounds of normal botanical behavior, of course, but something here was slightly amiss. Thin strands of silk ran amongst the foliage. In fact, it was the silk itself that fastened the leaves to the twig, not their stems. And one of those leaves looked very peculiar. It was a spider! And clearly, this clever creature had set the scene for the perfect camouflage.
This Spider Pretends to Be a Leaf
