Fortunately, we are not going to be fighting against giant zombie spiders any time soon, despite the Daily Mail. Scientists from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London have been able to reconstruct a Cryptomartus hindi and a Eophrynus prestivicii using computer tomography. And while they look bloody scary, they are only 3D computer models made out of 3,000 X-ray photographies.
Note to scientists: Please don’t revive any blood-sucking, web-weaving fossilized creatures from the Cambric period. Or any other creature, for that matter. Thanks. [Imperial College via Daily Mail]
Derrick
Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 9:00 AMThere is no such thing as the Cambric Period.
JB
Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 9:48 AMFor someone who is actually scared of REAL spiders, I can say that these pictures aren’t particularly shudder-worthy.
Elly Hart
Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 9:51 AMWhy did they make the legs look purple? Or were they really purple?
narikki
Friday, August 7, 2009 at 2:25 PMdoesnt look that scary, but in real life with some textures on it and the fact that it would be bigger than us would probs be a lot more scaries =P