The arachnid - resembling a spider with a tail - lived about 100 million years ago An "extraordinary" spider "cousin" trapped in amber for 100 million years is shaking up ideas about the origins ...

In a report published Tuesday in the journal Current Biology, Parry and a team of researchers announced the fossil is a previously unknown species of arthropod − a category that includes spiders and ...

Dr Penney, from The School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences (SEAES), specialises in studying spiders trapped and preserved in amber tens of millions of years ago. The male spider ...

“We were able to show that the fossil is unquestionably a Huntsman spider and belongs to a genus called Eusparassus, which lives in the tropics and also arid regions of southern Europe today, but ...

So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a new species of arachnid–dating back to the late Carboniferous period (about 300 million years ago)–was found by a research team at the Mazon Creek ...