A young sea lion is being cared for at the Marine Mammal Center after being found along a Marin County roadway over the ...

The Goliath tarantula, one of the largest spiders in the world, is a fearsome predator that hunts everything from mice to ...

Spiders and their arachnid relatives may have actually originated in the sea, according to analysis of an "exquisitely ...

One of the creepiest, crawliest creatures of the Earth may have been swimming before adapting to live on land, new research suggests.

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In 2018, a Corpus Christi man beheaded a rattlesnake that was prowling around his yard. As the man bent down to dispose of ...

From their upturned noses to their dramatic performances of playing dead, eastern hognose snakes are interesting and ...

Archaeological excavations from Panlongcheng (in modern-day Wuhan, Hubei province) dating back to the early Shang Dynasty ...

A new analysis of an exquisitely preserved fossil that lived half a billion years ago suggests that arachnids—spiders and ...

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Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and their close kin – may have first evolved in the ocean rather than on land, say scientists.

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