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If you've got a fear of spiders, look away now, as scientists have brought ancient spiders
back to life using 3D graphics.
Using well preserved fossils, researchers from the University of Manchester and a museum
in Berlin worked out how the extinct early relative of spiders would have moved.
The spider-like creatures, known as Trigonotarbid, would have lived 410 million years ago. They
were some of the first predators to dominate on land, meaning they would have been at the
top of the food chain.
Scientists who studied the ancient fossils were able to see its leg joints and work out
a range of motion in the limbs. Researchers used an open source computer graphic program
to create the video showing how the creatures walked.
They reckon the spiders' prey would have been early flightless insects and say they would
vomit digested enzymes on its prey and then suck up the liquid as food. Nice.