A 500 million year old fossil could change what we understand about spiders

NPR | By Henry Larson,

Jeanette Woods

Published April 7, 2026 at 2:15 PM MDT

Pincers found on a tiny fossil that lived 500 million years ago could change how scientists understand the origin of spiders.

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