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A 500 million year old fossil could change what we understand about spiders

NPR | By Henry Larson,
Jeanette Woods
Published April 7, 2026 at 3:15 PM CDT

Pincers found on a tiny fossil that lived 500 million years ago could change how scientists understand the origin of spiders.

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