Scientists found a spider in the Amazon that looks like a parasitic fungus so perfectly they first mistook it for a mushroom

• A new species of spider from the Ecuadorian Amazon: Taczanowskia waska.
• Credit: David Diaz-GuevarraResearchers exploring Ecuador's Amazon rainforest thought they had spotted a small mushroom clinging to the underside of a leaf during a night survey.
• A closer look revealed something far stranger.