This 518-Million-Year-Old Creature Reveals How Spiders Got Their Bite

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Scientists from the University of Leicester and Yunnan University identified an ancient member of the chelicerate group. Beneath the rock surrounding a tiny fossil from southern China, two small limbs had remained hidden for 518 million years. When researchers finally looked inside, those appendages offered a rare glimpse of the evolutionary path that eventually produced [...]