A tribe of ferocious, cannibalistic Amazons lurks in the grasslands of southern Uruguay. Ok, they’re not the notorious warrior women of myth: They’re only a few inches long and they can’t fire an arrow. But they are no less wondrous, especially to researcher Mariana Trillo, who discovered this unique population of praying mantises and has studied them ever since. Growing up in the suburbs of Montevideo, Trillo had always wanted to study biology but discovered an unexpected passion late in her university program. “The insects and arachnids won me over…
