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

[Axel Emmermann]

Great find, Kreigh.
Although... two threads aren't a web yet and there are other animals (worms,
caterpillars and various other insect larvae) that produce silk.
Was there even a niche for spiders to occupy? 
Man has yet to appear on the stage of evolution in the mid-cretaceous  so
there were  no women  to scare... What else is the purpose of spiders?

Axel

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> Onderwerp: [Rockhounds] World's 'oldest' spider web found
> 
> 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.
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/sussex/7925629.stm
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