When I first saw it, I was unsure what kind of arachnid it was,” said Russell Garwood, a paleontologist at the University of ...

New analysis challenges widely held beliefs on when spiders adapted to land. One of the creepiest, crawliest creatures of the Earth may have been swimming before adapting to live on land, new research ...

Take their eyes, for instance. Daddy longlegs typically have two median eyes located on the front of the body — for ...

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A newly discovered fossilized giant trapdoor spider in New South Wales is captivating both scientists and the public. This remarkable discovery, detailed in a recent study published in the Zoological ...

It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie — a scorpion the size of a medium-sized dog, armed with spiked claws and ...