Never thought I'd see the day where I was was left feeling sorry for a wasp!

Just 4 days ago a fossil was discovered of a spider attacking a wasp caught in it's web. "Snore" is probably the word that just dropped out a few of your mouths before you could stop yourselves. Don't worry, I didn't write the paper I just read it so I'm not offended if you aren't interested.
But, this is the interesting part: the fossil in question is 100 Million years old!

That's right, this poor spider, was chilling in his web, for hours, waiting for some poor, sutpid wasp to come along so he could have some dinner. And finally some poor, stupid wasp did land in his web and right as he's about to deliver the killing blow.....

*dramatic pause*

*wait for it*

*do you feel the tension....*

*#building?*

....killing blow... and a quantity of tree resin (amber) chose that moment to engulf both the spider and the wasp.
The article really says it best when it comes to the wasps POV: "This was the wasps worst nightmare, and it never ended... it's large terrified eyes now stare for eternity at it's attacker moving in for the kill."
well, when you say it like that, how could you not feel bad for him?

As far as science goes this is actually pretty cool, because this is the only fossil of a spider actually attacking it's prey, and 15 unbroken strands of spider silk run through the amber piece. and some of them are still stuck to our poor wasp buddy. Which is actually really kinda of cool if you think about it, not cool for the wasp, or the spider either, cuz he died hungry, but cool for us, because, well come on, it's cool!

http://www.macroevolution.net/arachnid-fossils.html
^if you don't believe me just read it for yourself!