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<blockquote data-quote="ancientarachnid" data-source="post: 57634" data-attributes="member: 4204"><p>Hi,</p><p></p><p>I'm Callum, I'm a postgraduate student working at the Univeristy of Manchester on the locomotion of ancient arachnids. I'm working on recontructing the walking gait of a 400 million year old arachnid and have been working from fossils for a few months now. However, the muscles have not been preserved so I need to turn to modern day spiders.</p><p></p><p>To that end if you have a spider (preferably a tarantula or somekind of hunting spider, bigger the better) that has recently died of natural causes (i.e. all intact) and would like to donate its body to medical sciences, as it were, I would be very grateful of your help. We then plan to use medical scanning techniques to identify exactly how the leg muscles attatch.</p><p></p><p>We can naturally offer you a little money for useful specimens (perhaps to go towards more spiders!!!) and or some blow-up images of our scans of your spider, which would certainly be a unique piece for an arachnid enhustiast.</p><p></p><p>If you feel you can help me out please drop a message or send an e-mail to <a href="mailto:callum.mclean@student.manchester.ac.uk">callum.mclean@student.manchester.ac.uk</a> and we can sort out logistics.</p><p></p><p>Thanks</p><p></p><p>Callum</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ancientarachnid, post: 57634, member: 4204"] Hi, I'm Callum, I'm a postgraduate student working at the Univeristy of Manchester on the locomotion of ancient arachnids. I'm working on recontructing the walking gait of a 400 million year old arachnid and have been working from fossils for a few months now. However, the muscles have not been preserved so I need to turn to modern day spiders. To that end if you have a spider (preferably a tarantula or somekind of hunting spider, bigger the better) that has recently died of natural causes (i.e. all intact) and would like to donate its body to medical sciences, as it were, I would be very grateful of your help. We then plan to use medical scanning techniques to identify exactly how the leg muscles attatch. We can naturally offer you a little money for useful specimens (perhaps to go towards more spiders!!!) and or some blow-up images of our scans of your spider, which would certainly be a unique piece for an arachnid enhustiast. If you feel you can help me out please drop a message or send an e-mail to [EMAIL]callum.mclean@student.manchester.ac.uk[/EMAIL] and we can sort out logistics. Thanks Callum [/QUOTE]
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