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World's oldest spider's web discovered in Spain

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Jun 23, 2006, 15:56 GMT


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Anon-o-mouseJun 23rd, 2006 - 18:27:31

Why did it take three years to report that this had been found? And on a side note, I thought that spider webs were only found by walking into them

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Red RatJun 23rd, 2006 - 18:50:43

The damn web was 110 million years old, what is 3yrs. Takes a while to clean the amber and find out what is inside. You only run into webs if you don't look.

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