CORVALLIS, Ore. — Oregon State University researchers are celebrating the discovery of a fossil that froze a 100-million-year-old spider attack.
The fossils are in a chunk of amber found in Myanmar, dating back to the early Cretaceous period.
The spider was about to make a meal out of a parasitic wasp when tree resin flowed over them.
Researchers say the amber includes at least 15 unbroken strands of spider silk–the web.
They also say an attack like this between a spider and its prey caught in the web has never before been documented as a fossil.
