Uploaded July 2014 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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A stunning video based on fossils of a 410-million-year-old arachnid-- one of the first predators on land-- recreates the animal walking. Scientists used the fossils-- thin slices of rock showing the animal's cross-section-- to work out the range of motion in the limbs of this ancient, extinct early relative of spiders.

Source: The Univ. of Manchester

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