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Fossilised spider

A fossilised spider from the Foulden Maar site.

It is rare to find fossilised spiders because they lack hard parts.

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Rights: John Conran, Daphne Lee and Uwe Kaulfuss, CC BY-SA 4.0
Published: 8 August 2023Updated: 7 August 2023Size: 672.42 KB
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