Illinois coal forests home to unique arachnid with spiny legs — study

A 308-million-year-old arachnid called Douglassarachne acanthopoda has been described as existing in the famous Mazon Creek locality in Illinois, part of North America’s Carboniferous coal forests. “This compact arachnid had a body length of about 1.5 centimetres and is characterized...

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