Scientists have discovered something quite peculiar; a block of
amber which contains the freeze frame of a spider attack from
100 million years ago. Like something out of Jurassic Park,
researchers have captured what looks like a spider about to
attack a wasp, in a 100 million year old piece of Amber. The
wasp had been caught in the spider's web, something evidenced
from 15 strands of still intact spider's silk in the amber. The
spider had then approached the trapped wasp, but before it could
attack, tree sap had fallen onto the web, encasing them both.
The tree sap hardened, and over millions of years turned into
amber. The fossil in question This discovery is the first find
of it's kind, as no other fossil records have shown an actual
spider attack in progress (there are however, records of animals
trapped in spider webs, sans the spider). The fossil also
contains another spider elsewhere on the web, making it the
earliest potential evidence of social behavior in spiders. The
fossil was found in a Burmese m