Beneath the dry farmland of New South Wales lies a hidden window into a lost rainforest teeming with life from 11-16 million ...

A peer-reviewed study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has documented the discovery of an exceptionally well-preserved fossil of a giant trapdoor spider in New South Wales, ...

Over 500 million years ago, a small marine creature swam through Cambrian waters. Its name: Mollisonia symmetrica. Long thought to be a distant relative of modern horseshoe crabs, new research now ...

A stunningly preserved fossil shows that early relatives of spiders and scorpions were already armed with their hallmark front claws about half a billion years ago. The newly described animal ...

Pincers found on a tiny fossil that lived 500 million years ago could change how scientists understand the origin of spiders.

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 ...

A fossil site in Australia shows iron can preserve soft tissues, changing how scientists search for ancient ecosystems.

Rudy Lerosey-Aubril is a paleontologist who likes to relax by cleaning - cleaning fossils. RUDY LEROSEY-AUBRIL: I listen to radio. I listen to podcast and this sort of thing. And it's just a moment, ...