Spiders and scorpions have ruled as terrestrial predators for 400 million years, with their success often attributed to ...

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

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Building these strong yet ephemeral traps is a process that follows patterns shared among spider species. But is there room for individual variation that makes one species' web — or one individual ...

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A 500 million-year-old fossil with a spider's brain structure suggests that arachnids may have evolved in the oceans.

A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain structure to modern spiders, suggesting that ...

A side-by-side comparison of the brains of a horseshoe crab (left), the Mollisonia fossil (center) and a modern spider (right) reveal the surprising findings of this study: The organization of ...

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The tiny 'backward' brain of an ancient sea creature hints that spider ancestors might have gotten their start in the ocean.

Finely preserved brain features in a tiny fossil suggest that spiders and their kin may have first evolved in the ocean ...