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35 million years older than they previously thought, and there's me moaning about being a year older!
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35 million years older than they previously thought, and there's me moaning about being a year older!My Collection - Summer 2011
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Just goes to show, wherever there's evolution, life and biological growth, there'll be a spid!sigpicHate is for people who find thinking a little too complicated!
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Thanks for posting, Pete, interesting new find. The paper is open-access, anyone interested can download it following the link in the article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0228 ("Full Text" or "Full Text (PDF)").
-ZoltanSpider Myths | Curious Taxonomy | The World Spider Catalog - Theraphosidae
"We are all taxonomists." -Judith Winston
"The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity." -Edward Osborne Wilson
"Principle of Priority - the oldest fool is always right!" -H. Segers & Y. SamynComment
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Amazing. I didn't know they went that far back
Thanks for putting it on.David Attenborough:
‘It seems to me that the issue of conservation of the natural world is something that can unite humanity if people know enough about it. Persuade them to change the way in which they behave, to change the view that gross materialism and the search for material wealth is not the only thing in life.’Comment
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