A fossil harvestman identified using advanced imaging techniques shows that extinct arachnid lineages once lived in Europe.

A35-million-year-old arachnid encased in amber is challenging what scientists thought they knew about the history of ...

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants were just beginning ...

The amber fossils preserve an impressive array of ancient bugs and plants that scientists are using to piece together a previously unknown Cretaceous ecosystem. Reading time 3 minutes For the first ...

(Phys.org)—Researchers have found what they say is the only fossil ever discovered of a spider attack on prey caught in its web – a 100 million-year-old snapshot of an engagement frozen in time.

In amber some 99 million years old, LMU researchers have discovered the oldest known mosquito larva. The Cretaceous fossil comes from the Kachin region in Myanmar and was preserved in excellent ...

Our planet is several billion years old—a number so vast it’s almost impossible to truly comprehend. In all that time, ...

Introduction. Caught in the act ; What are spiders and how do they fit into the grand scheme of things? ; Spiders in the fossil record ; Age, radiations and extinction events ; What is the importance ...

Tiny insects trapped in amber could tell us a great deal about their roles in past ecosystems: pollinators, parasites, predators, and prey. But how many of the insects preserved alongside each other ...