“These things appear to be essentially spiders with tails!” Jason Bond, an evolutionary biologist at Auburn University in Alabama who was not involved the studies, tells Science. The specimen, which ...

Scientists have used the latest computer-imaging technology to produce stunning three-dimensional pictures of a 49 million-year-old spider trapped inside an opaque piece of fossilized amber resin.

A hungry predator—perhaps a spider or bird or snake—ripped off ... which preserved the tiny amphibian as it hardened into amber. George Poinar, Jr., a biologist at Oregon State University ...