An ancient gene is crucial for the development of the distinctive waist that divides the spider body plan in two, according to a study published August 29 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by ...

A spider fossil from northeastern China is so exquisitely preserved that it reads like a field notebook from deep time, capturing delicate anatomy that usually vanishes long before rock hardens. I see ...

Newswise — CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers have found what they say is the only fossil ever discovered of a spider attack on prey caught in its web – a 100 million-year-old snapshot of an engagement ...

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 ...

Ancient killer spiders that were wiped out 100 million years ago have been found underwater in South Korea with their eyes still glowing. The arachnids scuttled across Earth’s forest floors more than ...

Over 500 million years ago, a small marine creature swam through Cambrian waters. Its name: Mollisonia symmetrica. Long thought to be a distant relative of modern horseshoe crabs, new research now ...

Your average backyard spider may owe its creepy life to an ancient marine critter that looked like a trilobite. Mollisonia symmetrica was a 500-million-year-old arthropod that scientists now think ...

Nothing gets between a fiercely protective mother spider and her children. Dripping tree resin trapped adult female spiders and baby spiderlings about 99 million years ago, forever showcasing the ...

A unique Early Cretaceous fossil found in Myanmar contains a spider poised to attack a wasp around 100 million years ago. A unique Early Cretaceous fossil found in Myanmar contains a spider poised to ...

An ancient gene is crucial for the development of the distinctive waist that divides the spider body plan in two, according to a new study. An ancient gene is crucial for the development of the ...