<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/873c1d67-643a-4145-8826-47cb8879bd8c/8FFC78D6-3820-4640-92A2-584C75F60ED7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://richarddawkins.net/article,4556,Fossil-hunter-finds-140-million-year-old-spiders-web,Telegraphcouk" href="http://richarddawkins.net/article,4556,Fossil-hunter-finds-140-million-year-old-spiders-web,Telegraphcouk" style="font-size: 11px;">richarddawkins.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://richarddawkins.net/article,4556,Fossil-hunter-finds-140-million-year-old-spiders-web,Telegraphcouk"><DIV><IMG class="articleImage" alt="blank" src="http://cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com/c116801/091102Web.jpg" />The tiny tangled filaments date back 140 million years and are linked to each other in the roughly circular pattern familiar to gardeners everywhere. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://richarddawkins.net/article,4556,Fossil-hunter-finds-140-million-year-old-spiders-web,Telegraphcouk"><DIV>The web appears to be similar to those of modern orb web spiders, which weave a spiral of silk to catch insect prey. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://richarddawkins.net/article,4556,Fossil-hunter-finds-140-million-year-old-spiders-web,Telegraphcouk"><DIV>The amber was found by an amateur fossil hunter whilst looking for dinosaur remains, and was handed over to palaeobiologist Professor Martin Brasier whose findings are published in the the Journal of the Geological Society. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://richarddawkins.net/article,4556,Fossil-hunter-finds-140-million-year-old-spiders-web,Telegraphcouk"><DIV>The tiny threads about 1 millimetre (1/20th of an inch) long are held in suspension amid bits of burnt sap and fossilized vegetable matter. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://richarddawkins.net/article,4556,Fossil-hunter-finds-140-million-year-old-spiders-web,Telegraphcouk"><DIV>Prof Brasier, of the University of Oxford, said: "This amber is very rare. It comes from the very base of the Cretaceous period, which makes it one of the oldest ambers anywhere to have inclusions in it." </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://richarddawkins.net/article,4556,Fossil-hunter-finds-140-million-year-old-spiders-web,Telegraphcouk">Continue reading <BR /><A href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6467024/Fossil-hunter-finds-140-million-year-old-spiders-web.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6467024/Fossil-hunter-finds-140-million-year-old-spiders-web.html</A> </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8FFC78D6-3820-4640-92A2-584C75F60ED7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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