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'Proto-spiders' made silk, but not webs

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An arachnid with no talent for weaving may have excreted the first known spider silk 386 million years ago.

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Barnett, A. 'Proto-spiders' made silk, but not webs. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.1331

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