[DogByte6RER]

Prehistoric insects trapped in amber for millions and millions of years ... I think I see where this is all going.

[Williams]

What’s the resin for this post?

[DManA]

Pyrrhic victory imortalized in amber.

[DogByte6RER]

Some related background/reference material ...

Predatory behaviour of the social orb-weaver spider, Geratonephila burmanica n. gen., n. sp. (Araneae: Nephilidae) with its wasp prey, Cascoscelio incassus n. gen., n. sp. (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) in Early Cretaceous Burmese amber

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2011.640399

[Doctor 2Brains]

for later

[Slump Tester]

"But as for catching unsuspecting prey in a web, that appears to be an evolutionary strategy that has survived the test of time."

Spiders catching their food in their web is "evolutionary"! Who knew?

[G Larry]

Poor spiders and wasps....

Doest this mean that after 110 Million years, they haven’t evolved into anything else.

(No! Not the fossilized ones, but the decendents of their siblings!)

Guess they’ve been perfect for a long time?

[JoeProBono]

[OldNavyVet]

Researchers date the scene to the Early Cretaceous between 97 to 110 million years ago in the Hukawng Valley of Myanmar

But ... But ... Darwin's theory on evolution is hogwash!

Just kidding. Darwin's theory is now proven to a degree that few question it.

[TigersEye]

But just before the spider was about to have its meal, a drop of resin flowed down from above, freezing the moment in time.

That must have been a really big drop of resin.

[Our man in washington]

Talk about a slow web connection.

[AndyTheBear]

Ok, I got a basic question. How did they date the fossil? Is there a way to tell how old the Amber was? Was it based on the he radiometric readings of nearby igneous rock?

[Reddy]

Sorry, the drop of amber immediately froze the spider and wasp in that position? Doesn’t amber have to harden?

To me it looks like something happened that was catastrophic that froze them into that position forever. Not sure what it would have been, something akin to Pompeii?

[rusty millet]

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[stevio]

Amazing. 100 million years and a spider still looks like a spider and a wasp still looks like a wasp. I guess evolution missed these two.

[RikaStrom]

PING!

[albionin]

Amazing, thanks for posting.

[Doulos1]

‘100 million’ years and they haven’t evolved at all? A wasp is still a wasp and a spider is still a spider, hum?

[SamAdams76]

I have arachnophobia and seeing that photo made me jump out of my skin - even though the spider has been dead for 110,000,000 years.

By the way, that really was a long time ago. No internet. No computers. No pan-seared salmon over jasmine rice and asparagus.

[RedwM]

maybe the wasp had the spider.