Dec 16 2008Scientists Find World's Oldest Spider Web (Until Another, Much Older One Is Found)
Scientists have found what they believe to be the world's oldest and least circular spider web, encased in a piece of amber. It's allegedly 140 million years-old.
"It's not a striking, perfect web," Braddy said. "(But) this seems to confirm that spiders were building orb webs back in the early Cretaceous" -- the geological term for the period of time between 145.5 and 65.5 million years ago when dinosaurs and small mammals shared the earth.
Are you thinking what I'm thinking? If it's, "let's clone whatever that spider bit and have sex with it", then you are. High five for being on the same page.
Oldest Spider Web Found, Scientist Says [aolnews]
Thanks to Pat, who doesn't get bitten by spiders because he bites them. That's pretty freaking sick, Pat.
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Reader Comments
1. Jesus!! - December 16, 2008 10:13 AM
Tarantula-saurus REX!!!! :D
[First..or second...maybe third.]
2. Brian - December 16, 2008 10:13 AM
First to say nothing about this thread at all...
3. Sharla - December 16, 2008 10:16 AM
Wonder how big the spider was... and what did he catch....
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4. Tony Huynh - December 16, 2008 10:18 AM
Let's clone it then shoot it with radiation and then let it bite me.
5. daguz - December 16, 2008 10:22 AM
Everybody knows that the earth is only 6000 years old... Just ask a creationist... So this is clearly fake!
6. Daisy - December 16, 2008 10:47 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake becahse the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max comes back from South America with a super spider, and it mates with a common house spider, and the offspring have super deadly venom.
7. Moose Knuckle - December 16, 2008 10:52 AM
I disagree with the "scientists", I believe this is merely a couple of boogers caught in the nasty snot rocket of a Sleestak.
Case closed...
8. I'm a Computer - December 16, 2008 11:02 AM
This is clearly an 8-legged sabertooth tiger.
9. George "Dubya" Bush - December 16, 2008 11:32 AM
Did I mention that a spider threw eight shoes at me once. I managed to dodge them all before secret service was able to even get up and tackle the spider.
10. Thumperchica - December 16, 2008 11:37 AM
But does the spider have roller skates?
11. Hannukah Montana - December 16, 2008 11:38 AM
Maybe they should consider cloning my great granduncle, Capt. Crunch.
Seriously, what's the deal with all these ancient shit?
Yet they never really figured out how to "un-shrivel" man's nutsack.
Here's a great idea: "I'm bringing sexy balls back!"
Smooth like marble, oh yeah!
12. Pew³ - December 16, 2008 11:53 AM
This web is from the famous 7 legged spider, valued at over $233 dollars!
13. marvel - December 16, 2008 12:07 PM
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14. Spider - December 16, 2008 4:10 PM
woo! High five! well to an extent, I was thinking more of cloning it and then after we saw what it looked like to let if have sex, er to reproduce with other similar animals
15. Turtle - December 16, 2008 8:15 PM
would ya guess be big meanies to me if i told ya that i lost my virginity to a spider?
then after a few months of that my spidey friend brought in her ex, the worm. ahhh, wat an exciting night that was
16. Discount beads - November 27, 2009 4:46 AM
Distance makes the hearts grow fonder.
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