A Fossil Spider Discovery Just Turned Out to Be a Crayfish With Some Legs Painted On

ScienceAlert ^ | Friday, December 20, 2019 | Michelle Starr

[SunkenCiv]

Look. There's even brushstrokes! (Selden et al., Palaeoentomology, 2019)

[SkyDancer]

Question then is: when was it done and by whom?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

Another slow week -- here are the other GGG topics introduced since the previous Digest ping:

• Battle of Trenton "Independence ... confirmed by God Almighty in the victory of General Washington at Trenton" [2019]
• Dendrochronological evidence for long-distance timber trading in the Roman Empire [2019]
• First Person: A Name in Search of a Story [Shiphrah in 13th dynasty Egypt] [2019]
• A Fossil Spider Discovery Just Turned Out to Be a Crayfish With Some Legs Painted On [2019]
• How the Ancients Cut Stone with Sound Waves [2019]
• Researchers determine age for last known settlement by a direct ancestor to modern humans [2019]
• Three skeletons found under 18th-century Ridgefield house [2019]
• Trump as a Hamiltonian [2019]

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I thought science was not to be refuted.

[Bob434]

link

[CondorFlight]

Nonetheless, climate change is real! (sarc/off)

[MuttTheHoople]

In related news,

[dsrtsage]

“Question then is: when was it done and by whom?”

[Bob434]

[[Question then is: when was it done and by whom?]]

It was done pre history, by MS-12, the ancient fun loving prankster ancestors of the now violent MS-13

[2banana]

The science is settled!!!!

Therefore, you can ask no more questions on it.

Al Gore logic.

[yldstrk]

Sorta like when Putin walked out of the sea with an antique urn, eh?

[\/\/ayne]

[SunkenCiv]

No, it's not, and no one claimed that it was settled.

[stevem]

Mongolarachne chaoyangensis no longer exists

So, a new spider has been sitting there for over a hundred million years waiting to be discovered then, poof, goes extinct today in this climate crisis. It doesn't pay to be a denier.

[SunkenCiv]

Iraq-niphobia!

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, I think that happened at Cape Idokopas.

[SunkenCiv]

That's your ignorance.

[blueunicorn6]

Great Flaming Wolf Spiders!!!

[caver]

I had the same question.

[ElkGroveDan]

Fraud? In science? That can’t be. Science and scientists are 100% accurate all the time and there is no controversy when their papers are “peer reviewed.” I know because politicians and Hollywood celebrities told me so.