The species once described as the world's oldest spider is a more primitive version of the web-spinning modern spider, scientists have found. The parts of the Attercopus spider's described as ...

Paleontologists have taken another hard look at the fossilized remains of an arachnid that lived 386 million years ago, and have stripped away its title as the oldest known spider. The creature, ...

The oldest fossil spider was thought to be Attercopus fimbriunguis, which lived around 386 million years ago. But the scientists who discovered that fossil 20 years ago have found a few more in recent ...

A spider that isn't really a spider? Paleontologists may have stumbled on one of the earliest forms of spiders, which appeared even before the dinosaurs. University of Manchester paleontologist ...

A tiny arachnid discovered in 100-million-year-old amber looks just like a spider, except for one thing: its whip-like tail. A new arachnid with a tail and spinnerets has been discovered in ...

Discover the truth behind the oldest known spider, Attercopus fimbriunguis, and its surprising silk-producing capabilities. These proto-spiders may have used sheets of silk to line burrows, wrap eggs ...