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, ...

On extant and fossil European Mangorini (Araneidae) -- Taxonomy of extant and fossil (Eocene) European Gnaphosidae -- Spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Araneae ...

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 ...

Illustration of what the Mollisonia animal would have looked like at the time it lived, more than 500 million years ago. A new analysis of an exquisitely preserved fossil that lived half a billion ...

The special brains of spiders may have started to evolve in the oceans, long before their ancestors crawled onto land. A fresh look at a 500-million-year-old fossil by researchers from the University ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the creepiest, crawliest creatures of the Earth may have been swimming before adapting to live on land, new research ...

One of the creepiest, crawliest creatures of the Earth may have been swimming before adapting to live on land, new research suggests. Spiders and their arachnid relatives may have actually originated ...

The knotty sea spider, Pycnogonum litorale, is not actually a spider, but it does represent a significant early branch in the genetic family tree that includes spiders, as well as scorpions, ticks and ...

Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and their close kin – may have first evolved in the ocean rather than on land, say scientists. A new ...

The Short Wave team talks about spider origins, why the odds of having a girl or a boy aren't 50-50, and what the Orion constellation reveals about the life cycles of stars. Time now for our science ...