How a Harvard Scientist's Life Changed After He Killed a Puppy-Size Spider
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Harvard researcher Piotr Naskrecki was just doing his job when he ran into the one of the world’s largest spiders in Guyana and killed it. The Internet didn’t see it that way.
When Naskrecki, an entomologist and photographer for Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, blogged about the event two weeks ago, he and the spider—a Goliath birdeater he described as “puppy sized” and said made “the sound of little hooves in the night”—went viral. It also sparked an onslaught of rage.