Discovery of prehistoric spider nets

This is the oldest spider web in the world discovered, scientists determined its date about 140 million years ago.

This amber block of spider web was found by an amateur fossil hunter when he searched for dinosaur fossils, and it was transferred to the paleontology professor Martin Brasier for research.

Tiny spider silk threads are only about 1 mm thick, stored in transparent fossilized plastic parts over the years. Professor Brasier - working at Oxford University - thinks this is a fossil dating from the Cretaceous, rare and possibly the oldest.

This finding also shows that spiders in ancient times knew how to weave spherical nets to trap insects, much earlier than previously thought. According to the Daily Mail, the amber block is located near the Bexhill area, east Sussex, England. This place is very famous because people have discovered many dinosaur fossils.