Scientists have uncovered a nearly perfectly preserved spider fossil in northern China, dating back 165 million years to the middle Jurassic period. The species, Eoplectreurys gertschi, is a rare find ...

A new analysis of an exquisitely preserved fossil that lived half a billion years ago suggests that arachnids—spiders and their close kin—evolved in the ocean, challenging the widely held belief that ...

A fossilized spider unearthed in the grasslands of eastern Australia has turned out to be the largest of its kind ever discovered on the continent—and possibly one of the largest fossil spiders found ...

The special brains of spiders may have started to evolve in the oceans, long before their ancestors crawled onto land. A fresh look at a 500-million-year-old fossil by researchers from the University ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pieces of amber containing parts of a spider's web have been found in East Sussex and dated back to the Cretaceous period 140 million years ago, which makes it the oldest spider's web ...

One of the creepiest, crawliest creatures of the Earth may have been swimming before adapting to live on land, new research suggests. Spiders and their arachnid relatives may have actually originated ...

An unusual fossil brain suggests that the ancestors of spiders and other arachnids may have once scuttled around the sea, rather than on land as was long thought, a new study finds. "It is still ...

Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and their close kin – may have first evolved in the ocean rather than on land, say scientists. A new ...

Researchers have found a link between today's eight-legged spiders and an ancient group of arachnids that also possessed tails, according to two studies published in the latest issue of Nature Ecology ...

Introduction. Caught in the act ; What are spiders and how do they fit into the grand scheme of things? ; Spiders in the fossil record ; Age, radiations and extinction events ; What is the importance ...

On extant and fossil European Mangorini (Araneidae) -- Taxonomy of extant and fossil (Eocene) European Gnaphosidae -- Spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Araneae ...