Climate change says when spiders evolved

 

Image courtesy of Michael Frese. 

Joel Kontinen

 According to evolution, climate change had a say in which spiders eveloved, They say that “harsh new conditions as Australia began to cool and became much drier.”

They found two fossils. "The two fossils date back to the middle of the Miocene Epoch, between 11and 16 million years ago, when spiders were making exciting evolutionary leaps, says Michael Frese at the University of Canberra, Australia, who helped to analyse both specimens." 

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Vigil,  Ashley Balzer, 2023, Exquisite spider fossils from Australia offer clues to their evolution, New Scientist 21 September,