A 'Jackalope' of an ancient spider fossil deemed a hoax, unmasked as a crayfish

Thursday, December 19, 2019 - 14:11 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A team used fluorescence microscopy to analyze the supposed spider and differentiate what parts of the specimen were fossilized organism, and which parts were potentially doctored.

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