Until now, the oldest remains of this genus of spiders dating back to age 35 million years, writes Lenta.ru. Modern spiders weave this kind of huge – up to 1.5 meters in diameter – the network. Recently, another research team described another ancient arachnid – in northern China, scientists discovered the remains of a spider Eoplectreurys gertschi, whose age is also about 165 million years. According to the researchers, a giant spider Nephila Jurassica lived in Pangaea – the ancient supercontinent that later broke up first on two continents, Laurasia and Gondwana, and those already existing continents. The researchers believe the spider that lived before the separation of Pangaea, says Infox.ru. Based on the fact that the current of his relatives live in the tropics, scientists have suggested that resettlement sites of the ancient spider was hot and humid.
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