If you thought Australia’s spiders were scary, wait until you see the prehistoric version, because everyone online is losing their minds over it. Scientists have found a fossilised giant trapdoor ...

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 ...

Entombed in rock for over 310 million years, a spider fossil discovered in northern Germany isastonishingly well-preserved. Detailed in a newly published study in the journal Paläontologische ...

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 ...

In an undated image provided by Rudy Lerosey-Aubril, a fossil arthropod dating back to the Middle Cambrian around 507 million years ago and measuring less than 3.5 inches across. Researchers argue ...

What started as routine fossil cleaning turned into a major scientific surprise when researchers uncovered a tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old specimen where no claw should exist. That detail ...