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17/12/2008, 07:54 PM
The sources
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/15/oldest-spider-web.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9389-oldest-spider-web-found-in-amber.html
http://www.newscientist.com/articleimages/dn9389/1-oldest-spider-web-found-in-amber.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/15/gallery/amber-324x205.jpg (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/15/amber-zoom.html)
Trapped in Time | Discovery News Video (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/video/)
Dec. 15, 2008 -- The tiny tangled threads of the world's oldest spider web (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/06/22/spiderweb_ani.html) have been found encased in a prehistoric piece of amber (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/04/11/amber-feather-dino.html), a British scientist said Monday.
Oxford University paleobiologist Martin Brasier said the 140-million-year-old webbing provides evidence that arachnids had been ensnaring their prey in silky nets since the dinosaur age. He also said the strands were linked to each other in the roughly circular pattern familiar to gardeners the world over.
"You can match the details of the spider's web with the spider's web in my garden," Brasier said.
The web was found in a small piece of amber picked up by an amateur fossil-hunter scouring the beaches on England's south coast about two years ago, Brasier said. A microscope revealed the existence of tiny threads about 1 millimeter (1/20th of an inch) long amid bits of burnt sap and fossilized vegetable matter
http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn9389/dn9389-1_347.jpg
http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn9389/dn9389-2_500.jpg
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/15/oldest-spider-web.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9389-oldest-spider-web-found-in-amber.html
http://www.newscientist.com/articleimages/dn9389/1-oldest-spider-web-found-in-amber.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/15/gallery/amber-324x205.jpg (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/15/amber-zoom.html)
Trapped in Time | Discovery News Video (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/video/)
Dec. 15, 2008 -- The tiny tangled threads of the world's oldest spider web (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/06/22/spiderweb_ani.html) have been found encased in a prehistoric piece of amber (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/04/11/amber-feather-dino.html), a British scientist said Monday.
Oxford University paleobiologist Martin Brasier said the 140-million-year-old webbing provides evidence that arachnids had been ensnaring their prey in silky nets since the dinosaur age. He also said the strands were linked to each other in the roughly circular pattern familiar to gardeners the world over.
"You can match the details of the spider's web with the spider's web in my garden," Brasier said.
The web was found in a small piece of amber picked up by an amateur fossil-hunter scouring the beaches on England's south coast about two years ago, Brasier said. A microscope revealed the existence of tiny threads about 1 millimeter (1/20th of an inch) long amid bits of burnt sap and fossilized vegetable matter
http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn9389/dn9389-1_347.jpg
http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn9389/dn9389-2_500.jpg