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Park's team later learned that the fossils were of many different spider types, including the two new lagonomegopid species. One of the newly described spiders, Koreamegops samsiki, is named for ...
It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out ...
The first record of termites in a polar region provides key insights into what these ancient forests were like ...
Researchers sequenced the genome of a sea spider, revealing it lacks whole-genome duplication seen in related arachnids. This ...
A Fossil That Alters the Arachnid Timeline Only four spiderfossils have ever been discovered in Australia, making this new find exceptionally rare. Its state of preservation is even more notable ...
And, as our recently published research in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology reveals, termites also chewed through the decaying wood of fallen trees. This is the first record of ...
Mindy Weisberger's new book details the crafty worms, fungi, and other parasites that have learned to mind-control their hosts.
Fossil discoveries in Inner Mongolia have unveiled two rare specimens of an extinct genus of giant spiders, shedding light on the fascinating evolutionary pathways of arachnids during the Jurassic ...
Bank financing for the fossil fuel sector rose by $162.5 billion in 2024, more than 20% compared to 2023, according to a Rainforest Action Network report. Fossil fuel-related financing declined in ...
A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef ...
The fossils are around 73 million years old, showing that birds were nesting in the Arctic at least 30 million years earlier than scientists thought. This discovery changes what we know about how ...