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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. What was labelled the biggest spider ever to have existed has been exposed as something else altogether after new research by a British ...

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 ...

"As soon as I saw it I knew it wasn't a spider" - Dr Paul Selden The world's "biggest ever" spider has been exposed as an impostor by a leading British spider scientist. Megarachne servinei was ...

A decades-old mystery has been laid to rest by scientists who have finally worked out the identity of a strange fossil. The Megarachne servinei fossil was found in 1980 in the 300m-year-old ...

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 ...