A spider fossil from northeastern China is so exquisitely preserved that it reads like a field notebook from deep time, ...

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 ...

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 ...

While trapdoor spiders can come in all kinds of different sizes, like the massive and nightmarish Euoplos dignitas, or the much smaller brush-footed trapdoor spider, like those found in Australia. Now ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If you are not a fan of spiders, you may not like the creepy little arachnid scientists found entombed in chunks of amber from northern Myanmar. Unlike its spider cousins alive ...

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 ...

What has eight legs, fangs and a whip-like tail? If you're not a fan of spiders, this is one fossil sure to give you the creeps. Scientists from the University of Kansas studying in Myanmar have found ...

If you’d been around 520 million years ago and been living at the bottom of the ocean, you would not have wanted to stumble across the extinct creature scientists just identified from fossil records ...

Spider embryo with a loss of the waist region upon knockdown of the gene waistless. Hoechst staining with fluorescent stereomicroscopy. An ancient gene is crucial for the development of the ...