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Daddy longlegs seen catching and eating frogs in astonishing first

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Researchers documented harvestmen (daddy longlegs) preying on and consuming live frogs larger than themselves in South American rainforests, challenging long-held assumptions about invertebrate-vertebrate predator-prey relationships and revealing previously undocumented ecological interactions in tropical ecosystems.

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Field observations relied on photographic records rather than collected specimens; the broader prevalence of this predation behavior remains to be determined.

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