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Harun Yahya
JUMPING SPIDER
Age: 25 million years old
Size: 16 millimeters (0.6 in) by 10 millimeters (0.3 in)
Location: The mountains near Santiago, Dominican Republic
Period: Oligocene
This piece of amber contains a jumping spider from the family Salticidae. These spiders
take their name from the way they jump onto their prey, leaping up to 50 times their own
length. In addition to the four eyes at the front of their heads, they also have four small
eyes with flawless structures in immediate proximity to these, which they use to identify
their prey.
Just like their present-day counterparts, jumping spiders that lived millions of years ago
had a complete, flawless structure. And over millions of years, no change has taken place
in that structure. The 25-million-year amber illustrated is proof of that.
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