Centipedes are not insects either. But centipedes are more closely related to insects than worms are. And that is because ...

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 ...

Shrubbery, toolsheds, basements — these are places one might expect to find spiders. But what about the beach? Or in a stream? Some spiders make their homes near or, more rarely, in water: tucking ...

Who were the earliest ancestors of scorpions, spiders and horseshoe crabs? A Ph.D. student from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), with the support of a CNRS researcher, has identified a fossil ...

What looks like a spider but isn’t one, lives underwater and breathes through its legs? That would be the mysterious sea spider. With over 1,300 species living in every ocean, these marine arthropods ...

All over the world, fruit orchards are patrolled by a group of superpowered ice spiders. Winter is tough for everyone. Everything from bears to bees hunker down for winter, waiting in their dens or ...

It can be pretty scary finding any sort of spider in your bath but imagine coming across one that has a leg span of 12 inches ...

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting through spiders and scorpions in the Zoological Collections Laboratory at the ...

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...