Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Breaking News From Paleontology

 


From an NPR article about the discovery that a half-billion year old

spider fossil has pincers, which means “the ancestors of spiders

actually existed 20 million years earlier than previously thought.”




3 comments:

  1. That is wild! And such a true true moral. Nature is the teacher. I thank you for this reminder on what is to be a day of gardening (planting hellebores first!) xo, a.

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  2. Oh, cool! Pinchers! Anything we've seen back then we might see ...again. Hm...😥

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