Scientific discoveries are typically made through observations of the natural world. From watching an apple fall from a tree ...

No living spider has a tail. Credit: Dinghua Yang) The new creature looks just like a spider, with common body parts including fangs and four legs that are specifically used for walking.

A spine-tingling spider with a scorpion-like tail has been found in amber dating back 100 million years. The primitive creepy crawly is so scary it’s been named after a monster from Greek myt… ...

Selden had previously studied a much older tailed arachnid, but it lacked the silk-making spinnerets of this new find.That positions the 100-million-year-old spider, now named Chimerarachne, as a ...

A few years back, Selden and colleagues published a paper about a spider-like creature with a tail from the Paleozoic Era. The Chimerarachne are much younger and also have spinnerets, a spider’s ...

Scientists on Monday described four specimens of arachnid, called Chimerarachne yingi, that inhabited a Cretaceous Period tropical forest about 100 million years ago during the dinosaur age ...

Like a Griffin or a Jackalope, the spider looks like it had a tail from another creature attached to it. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays.

But the spider – encased in fossilised tree sap known as amber – also had a long tail. No other living spider has a tail, although some relatives of spiders, the vinegaroons, do have an anal ...

Scientists have discovered a groundbreaking arachnid species that lived millions of years ago -- and it had a tail. The tiny creatures were less than 3 millimeters long and crawled around ...

Scientists have discovered a groundbreaking arachnid species that lived millions of years ago — and it had a tail. Skip to content. WGNO. New Orleans 75 ...