Spiders (and arachnids) have been around for 400 million ... “The genus name Douglassarachne acknowledges the Douglass family, who kindly donated the specimen to the Field Museum of Natural ...

Let's start out with an interesting fact: ticks are not insects. They're actually part of the arachnid family, closely related to spiders. Their bites, in and of themselves, are not poisonous ...