Meal Interrupted: An Ancient Spider Tries to Eat a Wasp
This is one of my favorite amber fossils, both because of the dramatic scene and the exquisite level of preservation. What a moment for the resin to suddenly pour down over the pair, as the spider was about to chomp down on the parasitic wasp, which may have been poaching spider eggs at the time (oof). This piece of amber—the first to document a spider attack—was found in Myanmar, and it dates back to the Late Cretaceous, between 97 million and 110 million years ago.
