100-Million-Year-Old Spider Attack Found in Amber

MrLiberty · #1 (**permalink**) 10-09-2012, 08:10 AM

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Researchers have found trapped in amber a rare dinosaur-age scene of a spider attacking a wasp caught in its web.

The piece of amber, which contains 15 intact strands of spider silk, provides the first fossil evidence of such an assault, the researchers said. It was excavated in a Burmese mine and dates back to the Early Cretaceous, between 97 million and 110 million years ago.

"This juvenile spider was going to make a meal out of a tiny parasitic wasp, but never quite got to it," George Poinar, Jr., a zoology professor at Oregon State University, said in a statement.

100-Million-Year-Old Spider Attack Found in Amber | LiveScience

Everytime I see something like this I think of Jurassic Park.

BridgetRose · #2 (**permalink**) 10-10-2012, 02:26 PM

Quick Kill it!

Killing the Big Scary Spider! - YouTube

Comet · #3 (**permalink**) 10-10-2012, 07:29 PM

How can this spider be one hundred million years old when the Earth itself is only nine thousand years old?!?!?!

If this spider is older than Earth, this means spiders are actually gods.

Think about that next time you are tempted to destroy a spider web.

1069 · #4 (**permalink**) 10-10-2012, 10:02 PM

I found a cool fossil the other day, that looked like a bunch of petrified worms. Like, a whole mass of them. Little tiny ones.
My guess is, it was a shell or rock that was under the ocean millions of years ago, and had a bunch of barnacles or sea worms encrusted all over it. Like, layers of them.
It's pretty cool though. I wish I'd kept it. I may try to find it again.

Awahso · #5 (**permalink**) 10-12-2012, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Comet

How can this spider be one hundred million years old when the Earth itself is only nine thousand years old?!?!?!

If this spider is older than Earth, this means spiders are actually gods.

Think about that next time you are tempted to destroy a spider web.

Space Spiders. When God was creating the Earth he through some down just for fun. While Earth is only a few thousand years old, space is hundreds of billions of years old because that is where God used to play with his old alien toys and worlds

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