Arachnophobia can make humans flee at the sight of a brown recluse, black widow or even a daddy long legs, but animal predators of spiders know no such fear. That's why, paleobiologist George ...

If you weighed every human and all the ants, the scales would balance. The resin of conifer trees contains antibiotic chemicals and is harvested by the European wood ant to disinfect their nests.

This ant-mimicking spider, called Myrmarachne colombiana, was found preserved— fossilized in copal resin from Medellin, Colombia. The discovery was made by paleobiologist George Poinar Jr., ...

Other ant predators found on the algarrobo tree millions of years ago were pseudoscorpions. When it succumbed to the resin, this pseudoscorpion was in the midst of attacking an ant. Victory for ...