A spider fossil from northeastern China is so exquisitely preserved that it reads like a field notebook from deep time, capturing delicate anatomy that usually vanishes long before rock hardens. I see ...

A prehistoric predator once hailed as the world’s largest spider has been unmasked as something entirely different. More than two decades after its discovery, Megarachne servinei was reclassified—not ...

A new analysis of an exquisitely preserved fossil that lived half a billion years ago suggests that arachnids—spiders and their close kin—evolved in the ocean, challenging the widely held belief that ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pieces of amber containing parts of a spider's web have been found in East Sussex and dated back to the Cretaceous period 140 million years ago, which makes it the oldest spider's web ...

A timeline of the spider fossil record -- Fossils -- Living fossils -- Chance and change -- Outward and upward -- Triumph over thin air -- Small changes, big benefits -- Spinning, running, jumping, ...