Over 500 million years ago, a small marine creature swam through Cambrian waters. Its name: Mollisonia symmetrica. Long ...

Learn how a fossil from approximately 500 million years ago traces the evolutionary origins of spiders, scorpions, and other ...

Since that time, almost all arachnids have lived on land (although they might ascend your door frame to catch flying bugs in a web). But it’s difficult to know what really happened 600 million ...

But this newly described cave-dwelling, eyeless, daddy longlegs needed a more sinister name to capture its essence. Researchers called it Smeagol, after the creeping, pale Lord of the Rings ...

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Webbing is a fairly new adaptation in the arachnid family, which encompasses not just spiders, but also tarantulas, scorpions, mites, and ticks. As such, many species of arachnids do not have ...

Gonzalo Giribet, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University who worked on Huang’s team, said the new discovery might also shake up the arachnid family tree.

These early arachnids, ... -like tail — longer than the creatures' themselves — was a bit too much for Selden and his team to bundle into the arachnid family. Mashable Light Speed ...

The arachnids, which are not spiders, were thought to have only two eyes, compared with many more on spiders. ... The results could also help in sketching out the family tree of arachnids.

They are actually classified as aquatic arachnids. "This particular part of the tree of life has always been quite challenging to solve," lead researcher Jesús Ballesteros told National Geographic .

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