Spider fossils attack hornets

George Poinar, Jr., emeritus professor of zoology at Oregon State University, an insect researcher in amber, recently unveiled images of spider fossils attacking the wasps in a magazine. Historical Biology. This is a sample of amber dating from 97-110 million years.

Spider fossils attack hornets

This fossil specimen also contains a leg of another male spider. This provides the oldest evidence of social behavior of spiders, this social behavior still exists in some species, but is quite rare. Most spiders have a solitary life, often eating cannibalism and males will not hesitate to attack immature beings living in the same spider web with them.

Very rare and unique fossil samples were collected in the Hukawng Myanmar Valley, a fossil of the Early Cretaceous. Also in this period, dinosaurs were living on the earth.

Spider is an ancient invertebrate, thought to be a spider that appeared about 200 million years ago. However, the oldest fossils of spiders have been found dating back only 130 million years.