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To: GodGunsGuts
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081014134015.htm

Oldest flying insect fossil predates your spider by about 150,000,000 years. Oops.

20 posted on 11/20/2009 9:36:20 AM PST by stormer
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To: stormer
“The discovery suggests that orb-shaped web spinning spiders existed far earlier than had been previously thought, at a time before flowering plants appeared on the planet and triggered an explosion in flying insects.

Kind of a waste of time to set up a net and wait for insects before insects became a plentiful dinner item, don't you think?

25 posted on 11/20/2009 9:49:35 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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