53 mya Spider "digitally dissected"

["Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

This is way cool.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7068160.stm

A 53-million-year-old spider has been revealed in exquisite detail by 
scientists from the UK and Belgium.

The ancient creepy-crawly had been trapped in amber and preserved in a 
lowland area around Paris, France.

The scientists reconstructed the 1mm creature's original appearance using 
an X-ray-based medical imaging technique.

The pictures, published in the journal Zootaxa, "digitally dissect" the 
tiny spider to expose amazing details such as the preservation of internal 
organs.
[...]

picture at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/sci_nat_enl_1193679958/html/1.stm

Too bad our site doesn't have access to the zootaxa full article :(