A new analysis of an exquisitely preserved fossil that lived half a billion years ago suggests that arachnids—spiders and ...

Finely preserved brain features in a tiny fossil suggest that spiders and their kin may have first evolved in the ocean ...

Learn how a fossil from approximately 500 million years ago traces the evolutionary origins of spiders, scorpions, and other ...

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.

Spiders and scorpions have ruled as terrestrial predators for 400 million years, with their success often attributed to ...

KUNMING, July 22 (Xinhua) -- Beneath the clear waters of Fuxian Lake in southwest China's Yunnan Province, nestled amid beautiful surrounding hills, lies a 518-million-year-old record of early animal ...

A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain structure to modern spiders, suggesting that ...

The tiny 'backward' brain of an ancient sea creature hints that spider ancestors might have gotten their start in the ocean.

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has ...

A Neanderthal trackway discovered in Portugal shows how an adult male and two children hunted for food 78,000 years ago.