Eternal motherly love? Extinct spiders found protecting offspring in 99 million-year-old fossils - USA TODAY
Or at least encapsulated in a fossilized tree resin that's 99 million years old.
Adult female spiders – now extinct – were discovered protecting their already-hatched spiderlings in recently mined amber in Southeast Asia, according to a study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
One image shows a large female spider with part of an egg sac under her, revealing the maternal care that existed in the Northern Hemisphere during the Cretaceous period – spanning 145 million to 66 million years ago