"George Poinar, Jr., a zoology professor at Oregon State University, explains: "This was a male wasp that suddenly found itself trapped in a spider web. This was the wasp's worst nightmare, and it never ended. The wasp was watching the spider just as it was about to be attacked, when tree resin flowed over and captured both of them." The amber that holds the two bugs also contains 15 strands of spider silk and was excavated in a Burmese mine. Researchers say the amber dates back to the Early Cretaceous period, some 97 million to 110 million years ago. It's the first fossil evidence of a spider attack." \\ Both wasp (Cascoscelio incassus) and spider (Geratonephila burmanica) species are extinct today. - Adriano