Fossil discoveries in Inner Mongolia have unveiled two rare specimens of an extinct genus of giant spiders, shedding light on ...

While some people might be less-than-pleased to share the planet with the eight-legged arachnids, spiders actually evolved way before Homo sapiens were roaming around being afraid of them.

The ancient critter recently was described in ... about 308 million years old," said lead author Selden. "This compact arachnid had a body length of about 1.5 centimeters and is characterized ...

The scientists used the fossils - thin slices of rock showing the animal’s cross-section - to work out the range of motion in the limbs of this ancient, extinct early relative of the spiders. From ...

This remarkable discovery, detailed in a recent study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, marks a major milestone in the study of ancient arachnids. One of the standout ...

The newly discovered long-extinct species is described as a “large spider-like arachnid” with “distinctive large spines on the legs” by the study’s authors. They were unable to place the ...

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 ...