Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant cicadas, tiny fish and a feather from an ancient bird, reveal a unique snapshot ...

A fish thought to be evolution’s time capsule just surprised scientists. A detailed dissection of the coelacanth — a 400-million-year-old species often called a “living fossil” — revealed that key ...

Tomás Saraceno has been called the artist most likely to change the world. His first permanent public artwork in Australia has just opened in Sydney.

New research shows spiders didn’t come from the Earth’s land habitats as once believed but originated in ancient seas.

A fossil more than 500 million years old is rewriting the origin story of spiders and scorpions. Researchers suggest that the ancient find indicates arachnids may have evolved in the ocean rather than ...

A new study suggests spiders may have ancient marine origins. Researchers analyzed a 500-million-year-old fossil, Mollisonia ...

In a fascinating study published in Current Biology, researchers have turned our understanding of arachnid evolution on its ...

A fossil misidentified for over a century is now reshaping what scientists know about how life first made the leap from sea ...

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