The soft external skeletons of spiders don't typically preserve well — except at a few exceptional sites. There is one remarkable spot in the south of France, where fossils of spiders that last spun a web 22.5 million years ago have been discovered.
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Their soft external skeletons don't typically preserve well -- except at a few exceptional sites around the world. There is one remarkable spot in the south of France, where fossils of spiders that last spun a web 22.5 million years ago have been discovered.
Hide Caption 6 of 14 Photos: Ancient findsA tooth unearthed at Grotte Mandrin in France has revealed that early modern humans lived there some 54,000 years ago, upending what we know about early humans and Neanderthals.Hide Caption 7 of 14 Photos: Ancient findsA large area of well-preserved Roman mosaic -- parts of it approximately 1,800 years old -- has been uncovered in London near one of the city's most popular landmarks.
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