A recent paper provides an updated perspective on the evolutionary history of chelicerates—a diverse and ecologically significant group of arthropods that includes spiders, scorpions, mites, and ...

A 450-million-year-old fossil of an ancient creature related to the modern-day spider was recovered encased in fool’s gold in upstate New York. The new species is distantly related to arachnids like ...

Today's spiders spend most of their time on land, scuttling through fields, forests, deserts, and just about every other terrestrial habitat that's out there. But that doesn't mean that their ...