Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Associated Press has captured footage of a new species of arachnid on camera for the first time. Biologists in southern Spain ...

At first glance, this fossilized eight-legged creature looks like a type of spider. But when scientists looked closer at the legs etched into the fossil, they were stunned by its spiny features. Due ...

The idea of coming face to face with a spider-like creature unexpectedly is enough to fill any arachnophobe with horror, let alone encountering one with large, spiky legs. But that is exactly what ...

A prehistoric predator once hailed as the world’s largest spider has been unmasked as something entirely different. More than two decades after its discovery, Megarachne servinei was reclassified—not ...

A species of daddy longlegs has been hiding four extra eyes. While the newfound peepers never fully develop, the vestigial organs suggest that this arachnid lineage is about 50 million years older ...