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 ...

"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 ...