The cool thing about fossils is that you never know what you’re going to find when you start digging – and even after decades of uncovering the past, there are still mysteries to solve.

Once upon a time, a prehistoric species of arachnid roamed the Earth in the area we now know as the state of Illinois. The ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. A captivating new species of arachnid from the late Carboniferous period is introduced in a new ..

The arachnid - resembling a spider with a tail - lived about 100 million years ago An "extraordinary" spider "cousin" trapped in amber for 100 million years is shaking up ideas about the origins ...

One of the biggest ‘mega spider’ fossil ever found has just been discovered in Australia. This colossal arachnid was five ...

While they may incite fear due to their impressive dimensions, these spiders play crucial roles in their ecosystems and have become subjects of significant scientific interest and study.

University of Oxford associate prof Luke Parry called the fossils "spectacularly preserved" A 450-million-year-old fossil of an ancient relative of spiders has been discovered preserved in 3D by ...

The common traits of spiders are well known to everyone – they have eight legs, multiple eyes and can spin webs – but a recent fossil discovery and new research now shows that spiders once had long ...