Source: Maximilian Paradiz, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Several years ago, biologist Daniel Wiegmann of Bowling Green State University decided he needed a new ...

Scientists have recreated the walking gait of a 410-million-year-old arachnid, one of the first predators on land, based on fossil evidence. The scientists used the fossils -- thin slices of rock ...

BROOKFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- Spiders are invading Brookfield Zoo, but it's a good thing. The zoo's new exhibit, Amazing Arachnids, is scheduled to open Saturday. With 100 live arachnids on display, zoo ...

The spiny legged 308-million-year-old arachnid Douglassarachne acanthopoda was discovered the famous Mazon Creek locality. More than 300 million years ago, all sorts of arachnids crawled around the ...

The arachnids, which are not spiders, were thought to have only two eyes, compared with many more on spiders. By Veronique Greenwood Guilherme Gainett, then a biologist at the University of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A recent study reveals a vast and unregulated global trade in invertebrates, posing a risk of overexploitation of some species in the wild. A group ...

If you read the stories recently about the new “monster” daddy longlegs species discovered in the forests of southwestern Oregon, you probably won’t want to take a hike there anytime soon. But for ...

The huge boom in exotic pet trading around the world includes thousands of arachnid species—and the consequences could be devastating for the environment. Innovation Reporter If you’re looking for a ...

A newly described species of sea scorpion measures over 1.5 metres long and lived 460 million years ago. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the ...

We humans take a lot for granted. Take air travel, for example. We often forget how much cleverness, persistence, and hard work it took to overcome the fact that we have no wings of our own. But we ...

A new species of wolf spider has been officially named after Aragog, the enormous, sentient arachnid character in the Harry Potter books and movies. Researchers from the University of Tehran ...