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An ancient attack frozen in time

October 9, 2012by Lindsey Reiser 1 Comment

A 100-million year old wasp saw its final moments in the waiting jaws of an orb-weaver spider, but things didn’t exactly play out that way. Just as the juvenile spider […]

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