and spiders. Belonging to the extinct class of predatory arthropods known as megacheirans, this discovery demonstrates that ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Chester Zoo in England reports that the fen raft spiders "just had the biggest mating season on record" after they almost became extinct Alamy The Chester Zoo is looking back on a monumental ...

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 ...