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One of the creepiest, crawliest creatures of the Earth may have been swimming before adapting to live on land, new research suggests.

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

University of Arizona researchers reviewed an "exquisitely preserved" fossil of Mollisonia symmetrica that supports the idea ...

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A 500 million-year-old fossil with a spider's brain structure suggests that arachnids may have evolved in the oceans.

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