Four new specimens of this mysterious species — which has been dubbed Chimerarachne Yingi — have been found so far. Their bodies measure around 2.5 millimetres, but their tales are even longer ...

Four new specimens of this mysterious species — which has been dubbed Chimerarachne Yingi — have been found so far. Their bodies measure around 2.5 millimetres, but their tales are even longer ...

A fossil find from Myanmar is thought to date back to the Cretaceous period, named Chimerarachne yingi. The animal is not quite a spider but thought to be a cousin, and the creature also had a ...

They described four specimens of the arachnid, called Chimerarachne yingi, that inhabited a Cretaceous Period tropical forest about 100 million years ago during the dinosaur age. Alongside modern ...

Scientists have discovered the fossilised remains of a previously unknown species of arachnid boasting a scorpion-like tail even longer than its body. The ancient arachnids - found in 100 million ...

Top, left to right: Suskityrannus hazelae and Mansourasaurus shahinae; middle, left to right: Ingentia prima, Elasmotherium sibiricum, Caelestiventus hanseni, Inquicus fellatus and Chimerarachne ...

They think the ancient species, Chimerarachne yingi, lived in tropical forests and had a long tail that it may have used to sense prey and predators. Ecologists analyzed 142 hydropower dams in the ...

This spider that lived about 100 million years ago, was named Chimerarachne yingi (in honor of the monster Chimera from Greek mythology). The arachnids date to the Cretaceous period — when ...

It’s the stuff of prehistoric nightmares. Eight legs. Fangs. And a whip-like tail. Call it Chimerarachne yingi, a newly-discovered arachnid found entombed in chunks of amber in northern Myanmar.

It’s the stuff of prehistoric nightmares. Eight legs. Fangs. And a whip-like tail. Call it Chimerarachne yingi, a newly discovered arachnid that crawled around rain forests in what is now south ...

THE picture above is of one of the five known specimens of Chimerarachne yingi, a newly discovered arthropod that lived 100m years ago, during the Cretaceous period. It is preserved in amber and ...

The Cretaceous-era critter is named ' Chimerarachne yingi', after the hybrid beast of Greek mythology. This creepy, eight-legged proto-spider was about 3 mm long with a tail measuring up to 5mm. It ...