Ancient Spider Attack

[DrLeftover]

The extraordinarily rare fossils are in a piece of amber that preserved this event in remarkable detail an action that took place in the Hukawng Valley of Myanmar in the Early Cretaceous between 97-110 million years ago,

OSU zoology professor emeritus George Poinar, Jr. described the scene etched in the fossil in further detail while writing about it for the journal Historical Biology.

“This juvenile spider was going to make a meal out of a tiny parasitic wasp, but never quite got to it,” he said. “This was a male wasp that suddenly found itself trapped in a spider web – this was the wasp’s worst nightmare, and it never ended.”

He added, “The wasp was watching the spider just as it was about to be attacked, when tree resin flowed over and captured both of them.”

http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2012/10...old-spider-attack-preserved-in-unique-fossil/

 

[Evil Eye]

Looks like the resin killed them fairly quickly... Doesn't look like they're struggling to get out.