A 'Jackalope' of an ancient spider fossil deemed a hoax, unmasked as a crayfish

Earlier this year, a remarkable new fossil specimen was unearthed in the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China by area fossil hunters—possibly a huge ancient spider species, as yet unknown to science.


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Source: Phys.org