"A team of researchers from institutions in Europe and the US travelled to France to scan the fossil, and found that the ancient creature "occupies a key position in the evolution of spiders," according to Russell Garwood from the University of Manchester," according to a news report published by In
According to a report in SeattlePi by Russell Garwood, "The idmonarachne brasieri has all the main features of a spider, except for the spinnerets that made spiders so successful. Spinnerets allow spiders to weave as opposed to simply blobbing silk, which other earlier versions of spiders did. The n
"We're looking at a line of spiderlike arachnids that haven't survived but must have split off before 305 million years ago," lead researcher Russell Garwood, a paleontologist at the University of Manchester, told Live Science. "Arachnids as a whole are an incredibly successful group. They're the mo
