Spinmeisters.(Samplings)(Brief Article)

Publication: Natural History

Publication Date: 01-NOV-03

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You wouldn't think spider webs could be part of the fossil record--and if it weren't for the preservative power of amber, they wouldn't be. Scrutinizing a fragment of Lebanese amber 130 million years old, Samuel Zschokke, a biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, discovered a thread of...

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