We’ve not found fossils before that showed this, and so finding this now was a huge (but really fantastic) surprise,” ...

In a remarkable discovery, researchers have unearthed 10 new species of fossilized spiders from the Mesozoic era, including one whose eyes still reflect light, 110 million years after its death. This ...

Fossil of ancient spider web only one of its type ever discovered Researchers have found what they say is the only fossil ever discovered of a spider attack on prey caught in its web — a 100 ...

Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and their close kin – may have first evolved in the ocean rather than on land, say scientists. A new ...

One of the creepiest, crawliest creatures of the Earth may have been swimming before adapting to live on land, new research suggests. Spiders and their arachnid relatives may have actually originated ...

Spiders originated in the sea half a billion years ago, suggests a new study. Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and their close kin – ...