Author’s Note: A few weeks ago, over at Dinosaur Tracking, I wrote about a revision to a classic story from Australia’s prehistory printed in Cretaceous Research. Large, three-toed tracks at the 100 ...

The biggest spider ever to have walked the earth has been exposed as a 'fraud' by a University of Manchester scientist, who claims the creature is more crab than creepy crawly. The biggest ...

It was considered the biggest spider ever to scuttle across the Earth. Or so scientists in Argentina thought when they uncovered the fossil of what they inevitably dubbed Megarachne — a name worthy of ...

I read with surprise the mention of a giant Carboniferous fossil spider with a leg span of 50 centimetres (14 December 2002, p 42). The species in question was described in 1980 as Megarachne servinei ...

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