#  Gonzalo Giribet and Colleagues Discover New Extinct Family of Harvestmen 

 





February 03, 2016

 

 

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 [**Gonzalo Giribet**](http://giribetgroup.oeb.harvard.edu/) and colleagues' discovery of two 99 million year-old daddy longlegs, enshrined in Burmese amber, not only helps explain the penis morphology of the harvestman, it also confirms a new extinct family of harvestmen. More can be read in articles found in *[The Science of Nature](http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-016-1337-4)* (Feb 2016), [*Science*](http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/ancient-arachnid-erection-enshrined-amber) (29 Jan 2016), and [*National Geographic*](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/160201-arachnids-harvestman-penis-amber-fossil-animals-science/) (1 Feb 2016).



 

 

 



 

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