100 million year ago , when dinosaurs were still around , this wanderer had conquer a wasp in his World Wide Web . The wasp was going to be the wanderer ’s dinner party . The wasp was going to go check the spider bolt down him . The white Anglo-Saxon Protestant was go to — SPLAT . At that precise moment — one hundred million freaking twelvemonth ago — tree rosin flow over on top of them and froze the two bug in time for us to see now .
It ’s pretty unbelievable . George Poinar , Jr. , a zoological science prof at Oregon State University , explains :
“ This was a manful wasp that suddenly found itself ensnare in a spider web . This was the wasp ’s worst nightmare , and it never ended . The wasp was watching the spider just as it was about to be lash out , when tree diagram rosin flowed over and captured both of them . ”
The gold that holds the two bugs also contains 15 strands of spider silk and was excavated in a Burmese mine . Researchers say the amber date back to the Early Cretaceous full point , some 97 million to 110 million years ago . It ’s the first fossil evidence of a spider onrush .
What ’s uproariously poetical about this picture is that the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant in the amber ( Cascoscelio incassus ) was hump to parasitize spider bollock . It belike tasted like odorous retaliation to the spider . Awesome . unhappily , both the wanderer and wasp species are presently extinct . [ Discovery ]
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