Heat-trapping methane may be best known for the dangers it poses to humans and Earth’s atmosphere, but in the dark depths of the ocean, the greenhouse gas is a nourishing meal for some of the world’s ...

“In most sea spiders, the male parent takes care of the babies by carrying them around while they develop,” study co-author and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa marine invertebrate ecologist Amy Moran ...

Scientists have unveiled three previously unknown species of deep-sea sea spiders that use an unusual source of nutrition: methane. This research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Spider-like creatures living near methane seeps on the seafloor appear to cultivate and consume microbial species on their bodies that feed on the energy-rich gas. This expands the set of organisms ...

Nature finds a way. Even in the most inhospitable conditions on Earth, life figures out how to not only survive but flourish. Take sea spiders, for example. A new study by researchers at Occidental ...

With four eyes, long legs and claws, a new species of sea spider was discovered lurking in the frosty depths of Antarctica. Researchers happened upon the creature, known as the Austropallene halanychi ...

The knotty sea spider, Pycnogonum litorale, is not actually a spider, but it does represent a significant early branch in the genetic family tree that includes spiders, as well as scorpions, ticks and ...

Sea spiders can regrow body parts after amputation and not just limbs, according to a study released on Monday that may pave the way for further scientific research into regeneration. "Nobody had ...

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