Meet Mongolarachne!!!Found a few years ago in the Cretaceous Pompeii of what is now China (see http:
Meet Mongolarachne!!!Found a few years ago in the Cretaceous Pompeii of what is now China (see http://on.fb.me/1cViPit and http://on.fb.me/1Hnu8YF), these whopping Jurassic carnivorous spiders were the size of medium birds and lived some 160 million years ago. Known as Nephilia jurassica, a couple were preserved in fine grained volcanic ashfalls and are (so far) the type and only specimens. These two babies are the largest spiders ever found in Earth’s fossil record.LozImage credit: Paul A Seldenhttp://bit.ly/1TBdBts -- source link
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