Comments on: Spiders Are Not As Old As We Thought http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2008/12/spiders-are-not-as-old-as-we-thought/ Ideas, innovations and discoveries from the world of science Thu, 16 May 2013 19:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: gjd http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2008/12/spiders-are-not-as-old-as-we-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-156 gjd Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:07:29 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/?p=413#comment-156 That fossil looks a lot like a whip-scorpion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whip_scorpion This is such fascinating research. the cool thing about studying invertibrate evoloution is most of the "links" are extant. You don't have the same gaps and missing bits as in vertebrates. You can find the whole evolutionary tree in a good insect collection - University of Kansas in Lawrence has the best one West of the Mississipi. That fossil looks a lot like a whip-scorpion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whip_scorpion

This is such fascinating research. the cool thing about studying invertibrate evoloution is most of the “links” are extant. You don’t have the same gaps and missing bits as in vertebrates. You can find the whole evolutionary tree in a good insect collection – University of Kansas in Lawrence has the best one West of the Mississipi.

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