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In the wild, Andrew feeds on fish, sponges, small crustaceans, nematode worms and protozoans.
Benny's diet is very specialized, consisting mainly of the interior of Ramy nuts, nectar from the Traveller's Palm tree, some fungi and insect grubs. He is also known to raid coconut plantations, and has been seen eating lychees and mangoes, which are also plantation crops.
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Category: arachnid • fossil
Posted on: October 31, 2007 11:38 PM, by ableiman
Using a technique called very high-resolution x-ray computed tomography, researchers at the University of Manchester dissected a 50 million year old spider encased in amber. As reported in Zootaxa, leveraging the same technology used in CAT scans, it can make out features the width of a human hair. In this case, the technique enabled the researchers to identify the critter of Halloween past as a new species.
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Comments
That's really cool! IS that its actual innards too? Crazy.
Posted by: Homie Bear | November 1, 2007 12:25 AM
Dang! you beat me to posting this!
It is really cool :)
Posted by: bug_girl | November 1, 2007 10:08 AM
It's a boy. And he's hung like a horse(fly)!
Just let me join in the chorus of really cools here, BTW.
Posted by: Mrs Tilton | November 1, 2007 3:53 PM
I'm so pumped about this technology finally being used on invertebrates! There is so much we can still learn about some of these ancient species.
Posted by: arachnophile | November 11, 2007 3:58 PM