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

Scorpions, ancient arachnids with a 400-million-year history, inhabit diverse environments worldwide, showcasing remarkable survival skills. They give birth to live young, exhibit extended ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” ...

Scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil from Canada's Burgess Shale, a discovery that reshapes how the evolution of ...

The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an evolutionary holdover from the scaly exteriors of ...

Mosura fentoni was a trailblazer for modern arthropods, developing adaptations that some crustaceans and arachnids re-evolved millions of years later. A finger-sized fossil has shed new light on the ...

Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds of millions of years ago ...

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 ...

Spiders are afraid of armadillos ... The sniffer is one of the lesser-known mobs in the game. It's an ancient mob that was introduced following the Minecraft Live vote. Sniffers do not spawn ...

May 28, 2025 — A new method could soon unlock the vast repository of biological information held in the proteins of ancient soft tissues. The findings could open up a new era for palaeobiological ...

The University of Bayreuth's Biomaterials research group has, for the first time, successfully applied the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool to spiders. Following the genetic modification, the spiders ...