Scientists have uncovered a nearly perfectly preserved spider fossil in northern China, dating back 165 million years to the middle Jurassic period. The species, Eoplectreurys gertschi, is a rare find ...

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 ...

A set of fossilized footprints discovered in northern Arizona has revealed the silent journey of a prehistoric arachnid that walked the Earth around 260 million years ago. Preserved in stone, these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the creepiest, crawliest creatures of the Earth may have been swimming before adapting to live on land, new research ...

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 ...

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 ...

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On extant and fossil European Mangorini (Araneidae) -- Taxonomy of extant and fossil (Eocene) European Gnaphosidae -- Spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Araneae ...

If you’d been around 520 million years ago and been living at the bottom of the ocean, you would not have wanted to stumble across the extinct creature scientists just identified from fossil records ...

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 ...