The oldest known spider web in the world has been found preserved in amber deposits on the East Sussex coast.
Oxford palaeontologist Professor Martin Brasier is currently analysing the 140 million year old fossils, which were spun by a spider closely resembling the common garden spider of today.
Reacting to this, one third year Oxford biologist said it was “a great demonstration of how advances in science help us better understand the past.”
Brasier expects this will just be one of many discoveries included in his wider project, explaining that “we have even more exciting things to report in the near future.”
