{"id":916978,"date":"2026-07-02T15:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/ancient-sea-creature-pushes-back-origins-of-spider-fangs-to-518-million-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:12:06","slug":"ancient-sea-creature-pushes-back-origins-of-spider-fangs-to-518-million-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/ancient-sea-creature-pushes-back-origins-of-spider-fangs-to-518-million-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Sea Creature Pushes Back Origins of Spider Fangs to 518 Million Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Urokodia aequalis, an early Cambrian marine predator from the Chengjiang biota of China, preserves the earliest known evidence of chelicerae &#8212; the pincer-like structures that later evolved into the fangs of spiders and the pincers of scorpions.<br \/>\nThe post Ancient Sea Creature Pushes Back Origins of Spider Fangs to 518 Million Years Ago appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/paleontology\/urokodia-aequalis-14887.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Luz Pekar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Urokodia aequalis, an early Cambrian marine predator from the Chengjiang biota of China, preserves the earliest known evidence of chelicerae &#8212; the pincer-like structures that later evolved into the fangs of spiders and the pincers of scorpions. The post Ancient Sea Creature Pushes Back Origins of Spider Fangs to 518 Million Years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":916979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3350,3023,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ancient","category-creature","category-science-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}