There are several different processes that lead to fossil formation, but the most common fossils are excavated from sedimentary rock. Sedimentary fossils vary in quality, as some clearly show an ancient specimen’s entire bodily impression while most merely show a...
Citizens of a small english village are understandably on edge after finding out that there may be two giant tarantulas on the loose. Some discarded pots were recently discovered in the village of Somercotes in Derbyshire by a local woman in the Bateman’s Yard livery...
The earliest ancestors of modern spiders first emerged on earth during the Devonian period between 420 and 360 million years ago. However, the more conventional looking spiders that we recognize today, true spiders, emerged around 300 million years ago during the...
Disease spreading insects have been a plague to mankind since we first emerged on earth, and the threat they pose to the modern public should not be understated. Scientists all over the world are currently scrambling to develop methods of protecting human populations...
Edible insects and arachnids is a concept that most Americans are not yet comfortable with, but if officials with the United Nations have their way, Americans will one day embrace edible insects just as they now embrace other arthropod species as food, such as...
