A collection of fossils that spent generations in museum drawers has revealed an unexpected chapter in Britain’s distant past. Long before forests spread across the landscape and before the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Avicularia lynnae tarantula© R. C. West / CC BY 3.0 A fight between a scorpion and a tarantula sounds uncommon, and in fact, it is ...

Museums are home to many mysteries. For all their labels and information panels, there remain specimens that elude identification for decades – even hundreds of years – after their discovery. Just ask ...

They have a venomous stinger on one end, pincers on the other and a segmented body with eight legs and a bunch of eyes in the middle. They're spiders' even more frightening arachnid cousins. And as ...

A giant predator was stalking what is now Britain roughly 415 million years ago, long before forests spread and before the ancestors of reptiles, birds, and mammals had fully taken to land. Its ...