Sunday, August 16, 2009

Computer technology brings 300million-year-old spider fossils back to life


Fossils of 300 million-year-old spiders have been brought to life with computer technology.

Scientists used a CT scan to generate three dimensional images of two of the creatures, Cryptomartus hindi and Eophrynus prestivicii.

Both were around the size of a 50p piece and they lived during the Carboniferous period, before the age of the dinosaurs.

[Read More @ Daily Mail]

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