Oregon State: Research Uncovers a Rare Resin Fossil Find - A Spider That Aspires to Be an Ant
March 27, 2024
March 27, 2024
CORVALLIS, Oregon, March 27 (TNSres) -- Oregon State University issued the following news:
Arachnophobia can make humans flee at the sight of a brown recluse, black widow or even a daddy long legs, but animal predators of spiders know no such fear.
That's why, paleobiologist George Poinar Jr. explains, some spider species have developed the defense of deception. They masquerade as a much less desirable prey - ants - and Poinar's recent paper in Historical Biology presen . . .
Arachnophobia can make humans flee at the sight of a brown recluse, black widow or even a daddy long legs, but animal predators of spiders know no such fear.
That's why, paleobiologist George Poinar Jr. explains, some spider species have developed the defense of deception. They masquerade as a much less desirable prey - ants - and Poinar's recent paper in Historical Biology presen . . .