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Harun Yahya
WEBSPINNER (MALE)
Age: 25 million years
Period: Oligocene
Location: Dominican Republic
Beetles in this order are distinguished by having up to 100 separate silk glands. Each one of them
opens to the outside through a hollow hair. In this way, the spiders weave shelters in which they
live. In temperate climates, they build their nests with denser silk tissues and retreat inside them
during those times of the year when the weather is unsuitable.These beetles are generally found
under tree bark, underneath stones and among rotting vegetation, where they construct a system of
nests. All individuals in the colony can travel freely through the nests connected to one another
with tube-like passages. Because of the delicate nature of these beetles' bodies and their webs, fos-
silized specimens are rarely encountered.These beetles, having remained the same for tens of mil-
lions of years, challenge the theory of evolution.
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