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1.5 crore year old trapdoor spider fossil found in Australia 5 times bigger than today’s spiders
The fossil of a giant ‘trapdoor’ spider, about 15 million years old, has been discovered in Australia. This is the world’s first fossil, which belongs to the large brush-footed family of trapdoor spiders. It is called Barychelidae. It has been told that this species lived in the Miocene 1 to 16 million years ago. The…