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

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

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

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