lol. That's not technically a spider...Originally Posted by Hursticon
Well, this is both saddening & disappointing - I feel like I've been lied to now.
Especially as finding evidence from the carboniferous period is extremely hard at best, not to mention we're talking about a species of animal that rarely if ever leave behind fossils that survive a million years let alone 300 million +.
I'll just have to suffice with these instead.
Don't feel too bad, though. Keep in mind that there are a lot of missing pieces in the puzzle that is paleontology (and archaeology) with varying, and sometimes contradictory, schools of thought, where researchers are always trying to find explanations for missing links as best they can, and will supersede past theories with new ones all the time as new discoveries are made that don't fit in with the current accepted model. But you already knew this.
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