A spider fossil from northeastern China is so exquisitely preserved that it reads like a field notebook from deep time, capturing delicate anatomy that usually vanishes long before rock hardens. I see ...

A fossilized spider unearthed in the grasslands of eastern Australia has turned out to be the largest of its kind ever discovered on the continent—and possibly one of the largest fossil spiders found ...

A new analysis of an exquisitely preserved fossil that lived half a billion years ago suggests that arachnids—spiders and their close kin—evolved in the ocean, challenging the widely held belief that ...

Jumping spiders (Salticidae) are a recently evolved family of spiders. They are known for their distinctive large eyes and ability to jump long distances relative to their small size. Australia has ...

Beneath the dry farmland of New South Wales lies a hidden window into a lost rainforest teeming with life from 11-16 million years ago. At McGraths Flat, scientists have uncovered fossils preserved in ...

Over 500 million years ago, a small marine creature swam through Cambrian waters. Its name: Mollisonia symmetrica. Long thought to be a distant relative of modern horseshoe crabs, new research now ...

Whether you love spiders or can't be within 10 feet of them, you probably think of them crawling around on land. And based on the fossil record, most researchers would probably say the same thing. For ...

The main point of distinction between this creature and true spiders: It very likely could produce silk but lacked the spinnerets used by true... Scientists have discovered a well-preserved 305 ...

A stunningly preserved fossil shows that early relatives of spiders and scorpions were already armed with their hallmark front claws about half a billion years ago. The newly described animal ...