Scientists have long sought to understand why sea spiders keep some of their most important organs in their legs.

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The idea of coming face to face with any spider-like creature is enough to fill any arachnophobe with horror, let alone encountering one with large, spiky legs.

Its body measured 23.31 millimeters long, which is just over an inch, significantly larger than the trapdoor spiders found in Australia today. This species is part of the Barychelidae family ...

Ancient arachnid from coal forests of America stands out for its spiny legs. University of Kansas. Journal Journal of Paleontology DOI 10.1017/jpa.2024.13. Keywords ...

So, too, in these ancient spiders, whose silvery tapeta still shine in the fossils. “They're so reflective—they clearly stick out at you,” says study coauthor Paul Selden, ...

A 450-million-year-old fossil of an ancient creature related to the modern-day spider was recovered encased in fool’s gold in upstate New York. The new species is distantly related to arachnids ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some ...

It’s very, very striking,” Dr. Jason Dunlop, a curator of arachnids and myriapods at Berlin’s Museum für Naturkunde and the study’s coauthor, told CNN on Friday.

More than 300 million years ago, all sorts of arachnids crawled around the Carboniferous coal forests of North America and Europe. These included familiar ones we’d recognize, such as spiders, ...