{"id":14,"date":"2007-11-05T07:08:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T07:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/11\/05\/a-50millionyearold-fossilised\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T07:08:18","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T07:08:18","slug":"a-50millionyearold-fossilised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/05\/a-50millionyearold-fossilised\/","title":{"rendered":"A 50-million-year-old fossilised spider has been brought back to life &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Oh, wait.  brought back to life &#8220;in stunning 3D by a scientist at The University of Manchester.&#8221;I hate those press release writers&#8230;This is actually fairly cool despite the fact that no actual spiders were actually brought back to life.  Very High Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography (VHR-CT) was used to &#8220;digitally dissect&#8221; tiny fossils thus revealing very fine detail including internal organs.  Here is an example:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-0f8e3dba2482fd3776615ea315eab345-spider_3d_490.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-0f8e3dba2482fd3776615ea315eab345-spider_3d_490.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/spider_3d.php\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/spider_3d.php','popup','width=1772,height=1773,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">View larger image<\/a>The same graphic in a different format can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/vocuspr.com\/VocusEU\/ViewAttachment.aspx?EID=7XZiu6ge1oPdw5MAkAGu8xQaKQBPjzlwL%2fjmraODHzU%3d\">here,<\/a> and you can get a PDF of the paper <a href=\"http:\/\/vocuspr.com\/VocusEU\/Temp\/ViewAttachment\/fe5b5dfaf9cf4f50bbf6fc3a8d457638\/0926penney-proof1.pdf\">here.<\/a>___________________Penny et al. 2007, &#8216;First fossil Micropholcommatidae (Araneae), imaged in Eocene Paris amber using X-Ray Computed Tomography&#8217; appears in the current edition of Zootaxa 1623: 47-53<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Oh, wait. brought back to life &#8220;in stunning 3D by a scientist at The University of Manchester.&#8221;I hate those press release writers&#8230;This is actually fairly cool despite the fact that no actual spiders were actually brought back to life. Very High Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography (VHR-CT) was used to &#8220;digitally dissect&#8221; tiny fossils thus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/05\/a-50millionyearold-fossilised\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A 50-million-year-old fossilised spider has been brought back to life &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-e","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}