Ancient spiders locked in amber died looking after their offspring

By Christa Lesté-Lasserre

Spiders trapped successful amber look to person been looking aft their offspring erstwhile they died

Dr. Dong Ren

Modern spiders are known to instrumentality attraction of their eggs and young – and present we person grounds that the behaviour is ancient.

Researchers astatine Capital Normal University successful Beijing precocious acquired 4 specimens of spiders trapped successful Burmese amber, dated to 98.8 cardinal years agone and mined successful the Hukawng vale of bluish Myanmar. In collaboration with Paul Selden astatine the Natural History Museum successful London, the squad analysed the pieces utilizing photography and micro-computed …

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