Spider-Like Creature with a Scorpion’s Tail Found Trapped in Amber
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Eight legs. Fangs. And a whip-like tail.
...Its remains were found imprisoned in amber, as if Mother Nature herself tried to lock this tiny terror away from the rest of the world."
Gee, is that bad writing or what? Sounds like crap tv, not the NYT.
> Scorpions hibernate in times of extreme cold, which allows Asian species to live as far north as nearly 50 degrees latitude. "That's under snow a good four months a year," said Fet. "There's no way they are active there in cold weather, but they hibernate, and do this even in Asian deserts where it becomes very cold."
This has spinnerets. But, also, probably not that much like the earliest land animal:
Not a biologist but it appears that biology is really good at preserving the integrity of body parts even though they can be found in multiple species.
Methods for extracting aDNA are always improving, oldest full genome sequencing is now over half a million years old.
Nature already had that idea with the centipedes and millipedes, the issue is that they won't be classified as an arachnid, since one of the "key" features is having exactly eight legs (actually four pairs):
http://www.burkemuseum.org/blog/myth-eight-legs-always-means....
Though it does remind me of that facehugger from aliens.
Then Hollywood will have some scientific basis to proceed from to make some true nightmare fuel that ticks all the right horrible boxes.
1: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/02/06/science/06OBS-ARA...
Not necessarily terror, per se, but it generated itself based on the imagination and interests of the characters IIRC.
Videos only two minutes but even that little time of ripping into the team that made the NN is hard to watch.
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/12/that-time-miyazaki-absolut...
NN generated books, movies, shows, paintings, all worthless. It's the maximum viable version of youtube videos made for children that are cobbled together with a bunch of random assets, so that perhaps a baby will stay quiet and maybe click some ads.
After all, movie studios already do something to that effect. When I was in Rochester a few years back they were using a few streets to film action scenes for Spider-Man 3, which would have been far more expensive in New York and hardly anybody would have noticed the difference.
But the plot, design, and everything directorial is still up to me.