The mystery of the fossil spider footprints

[maggiek]

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[Lightningwaltz]

We don’t know where it was going or what it was doing, but

Obviously it was going some where too kill or hide. The options are not that many. A la Don Rickles

[retepslluerb]

I’m pretty sure, that in science the wrong answers start with “obviously”.

[Lightningwaltz]

Is an obvious step any intern Ichnologist could obviously over look. Stick around. We’re handing out buttons after the article. A la Don Rickles.

@Anthony Martian

It’s hard to say whether we’ll ever know precisely what critter scurried across those ancient sands. But for now, we know that 260 million years ago, an arachnid was wandering around in Arizona, doing whatever prehistoric spiders did.

In other words, going somewhere too hide or hunt or both. OBVIOUZLEEY

Not including the movement of tectonic plates over that time which will put arizona somewhere else… 250 million years ago it may have been in China.

Amirite?

[retepslluerb]

I’m pretty sure that prehistoric spiders mated, too.

[Lightningwaltz]

That is possible, I agree.