A set of fossilized footprints discovered in northern Arizona has revealed the silent journey of a prehistoric arachnid that ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have unearthed South America’s first amber deposits containing ancient insects in an Ecuadorian quarry, offering a rare 112-million-year-old glimpse into life on the supercontinent ...

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh ...