n7-paleontologist:buggirl:Fossilized tracks made my spider feets!Haha. I know that specimen!A fun st
n7-paleontologist:buggirl:Fossilized tracks made my spider feets!Haha. I know that specimen!A fun story about this set of tracks. It was discovered by Dr. Raymond M. Alf on a trip to Arizona in 1968. He had no idea what made them so he started experimenting by dipping animal feet in ink and letting them walk on paper. He one day found a tarantula around the grounds of the Alf Museum (they are still common today, trust me) and decided to test it out. As the tarantula walked across the paper, it made nearly the same kind of track! Dr. Alf repeated the experiment at different inclines and eventually came to the conclusion that the fossil tracks were made by some early arachnid across a sand dune at an incline!Specimens on display at the Hall of Life at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology in Claremont, California. -- source link
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