#  Gonzalo Giribet and Researchers Discover Arachnid Trapped in Amber 

 





February 05, 2018

 

 

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 **Gonzalo Giribet is** one of two teams of researchers that discovered four specimens of the new arachnid, *Chimerarachne yingi*. The discovery and study findings of the *Chimerarachne yingi* -- an ancient relative of spiders that had eight legs, fangs and a scorpion whip-like tail -- are published in two papers in [Nature Ecology & Evolution](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0475-9). Media: [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/science/spider-tail-amber.html), [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/02/05/itsy-bitsy-spiders-discovered-in-100-million-year-old-amber/?utm_term=.93f9a299b232), [Nature](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01604-2)

#####  *(Image of Chimerarachne yingi by Bo Wang)*



 

 

 



 

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