Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their ...

A rare ancient spider in New Zealand is thriving after simply being left alone for a little while. As The Kansas City Star reported, sightings of the Nelson cave spider jumped fourfold in three years ...

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 ...

What has eight legs, fangs and a whip-like tail? If you're not a fan of spiders, this is one fossil sure to give you the creeps. Scientists from the University of Kansas studying in Myanmar have found ...

An unusual fossil brain suggests that the ancestors of spiders and other arachnids may have once scuttled around the sea, rather than on land as was long thought, a new study finds. "It is still ...

Spiders and their ancestors have been driving an arms race that began before either stepped foot onto land and resulted in the first powered flight on Earth. But how did this competition of webs ...

Fossil of ancient spider web only one of its type ever discovered Researchers have found what they say is the only fossil ever discovered of a spider attack on prey caught in its web — a 100 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ella Kellner, University of North Carolina – Charlotte (THE CONVERSATION) Have you ...