They may look like spiders, but daddy longlegs belong to a different group of arachnids entirely. Here's why they're more remarkable than you think.

Genetically engineering the leggy spiders could help unlock the secrets of how they develop such long gams in the first place. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family ...

A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, and Western Connecticut State University, has assembled the first draft genome ...

The story sounds scientific enough to be true: daddy longlegs carry venom so deadly they could kill you, saved only by fangs ...

Do you remember growing up and seeing Daddy Long Legs for the first time? That teeny tiny oval body with those super, long string-like long legs protruding from that little body. Definitely creepy ...

While some people may first associate daddy longlegs with, well, their long legs, researchers Guilherme Gainett and Prashant Sharma have been especially focused on the arachnids' eyes. In their paper ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Daddy long legs spiders, also known as harvestmen or shepherd spiders, are members of the Opiliones family. Biologists will tell ...

A cluster of daddy long legs spiders attracted to a damp spot - Luis Fernández García/Wikimedia Commons Daddy long legs spiders, also known as harvestmen or shepherd spiders, are members of the ...