Scientists Discover a Strange Arachnid Trapped in Amber 35 Million Years Ago

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Harvestmen are some of the weirdest-looking arachnids to roam this Earth, and they've been doing so for millions of years. A particularly wacky new species has now been found in two separate 35-million-year-old amber specimens from Ukraine and the Baltic region. The new species, Ba lticolasma wunderlichi , belongs to a subfamily of harvestmen known as Ortholasmatinae. Harvestmen from this group are extinct in modern Europe, but the amber fossils reveal that these arachnids were rather