A mother’s love is eternal. 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.The tree resin the spiders were found in had hardened, locking up the arachnid mothers with their offspring in several chunks. The discovery is considered the oldest evidence of maternal care in spiders, according to the journal. Study co-researcher Paul Selden, a professor of Geology at the University …
