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140 million-year-old spider web

Posted: November 4, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Biology |Leave a comment »

Now that is old.

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According to the scientists studying this find – a piece of fossilised tree sap containing the spider and its web – the structure and composition of the web is very close to the ones of modern spiders.

Beautiful, don’t you think?

via Wired.

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