Indiana Jones might be asking, 'Why did it have to be spiders?' after reading a new report indicating its not uncommon for arachnids to kill and devour snakes. Poring over scientific research, news reports and even social media, Martin Nyffeler, a spider expert at the University of Basel in Switzerland, and University of Georgia herpetologist J. Whitfield Gibbons found more than 300 instances of spiders smiting snakes. According to their ...