http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4296398.stm
They found a spider trapped in amber, and are hoping to extract it's DNA. /ohmy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":o" border="0" alt="ohmy.gif" />
20 million year old spider DNA
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A very good news for the paleontology world. I hope that they will succeed for cloning it, also that if they do that, that the cloned spider will not escape and bite a student. /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />
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I'm sure if it was well enough preserved to find blood inside, they would also be able to find traces of any poisons that the creature might have produced.
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