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October 8, 2012 02:55 pm PDT

Ancient spider never gets to finish dinner

This is a spider, which was encased in tree sap while in the act of attacking a wasp. The sap turned to amber, leaving an incredible preserved scene, with even individual strands of silk from the spider's web remaining unbroken for 100 million years. — The paper this is taken from (sits behind a paywall, [...]


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