[Rockhounds] World's 'oldest' spider web found

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Two brothers have discovered what is thought to be the world's oldest 
recorded spider's web encased in amber on an East Sussex beach.

The amber, which was found in Bexhill, was formed about 140 million 
years ago in the Cretaceous period.

Amateur fossil hunter Jamie Hiscocks and his brother Jonathan also 
found the fossilised remains of an Iguanodon jaw bone on the coastline.

The spider web thread is now being studied at Oxford University.

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