Image courtesy of Xiangbo Guo, Paul Selden and Dong Ren; Proceedings of the Royal Society B .
Joel Kontinen
Spiders cared for their young,
even when by evolutionists they were 99 million years old.
This timing is a hazard, as
the world is not that old.
The spiders were trapped in
amber. A female Lagonomegopidae
spider family guards her egg sac in a tree cavity-
They were mined in Myanmar. as an article in Science says they are 99 million years old, as that is the ony date for supposed amber fossils in Myanmar., They lived in in the Northern Hemisphere during the Creatacous period (145 million to 66 million years ago).
Source:
Geggel, Laura. 2021. 99 million-year-old spider
mummies reveal moms cared for teeny spiderlings Live Science 14 September,.
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