To Australia found a fossil of a huge spider dinosaur

Moscow, on October 9 - Argumenty i fakty. Fossil of the huge spider dinosaur living 11-16 million years ago, the Australian scientists found, reports Independent. According to experts, the spider hunted in areas which were covered in due time with rainforests. Nakhodka was called by Megamonodontium mccluskyi. Length of a body of a spider made about 23,3 cm. To Australia only four fossils of spiders that complicates studying of process of their evolution were found earlier. Distant descendants of Megamonodontium mccluskyi live in the damp woods Papua New Guinea and Singapore, but it is less than them five times. Modern...