A prehistoric predator once hailed as the world’s largest spider has been unmasked as something entirely different. More than two decades after its discovery, Megarachne servinei was reclassified—not ...

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 ...

What was labelled the biggest spider ever to have existed has been exposed as something else altogether after new research by a British scientist. The size of a small dog, Megarachne servinei was ...