Megarachne servienei, giant spider? Oviraptor This reconstruction

This reconstruction

It was not until the discovery of the skull of a relative

the three fingers were roughly the same length

scientists Meave Leakey and Bernard Wood reconstructed KNM-ER 1470’s skull from more than 150 fragments

It lived during the mid-Cretaceous period

Megarachne servienei, giant spider? Oviraptor This reconstructionMegarachne servinei was originally described in 1980 by the Argentinean paleontologist Mario Hunicken. The holotype was recovered from the Pallero Member of the Bajo de Veliz Formation of Argentina, a locality dated to the early Permian of about 296 million years ago. Hunicken wrongly identified the specimen as a mygalomorph spider based on the shape of the carapace, the 15 millimeters wide circular eye tubercle located between the two eyes in the