Though sea spiders have thrived for millions of years in a variety of marine conditions—in cold Antarctic waters, on deep ...

With the help of methane-munching-microbes, these translucent sea spiders gobble up a potent greenhouse gas to stay alive.

Unlike spiders and scorpions, sea spiders didn’t go through ancient genome duplications, making them a rare window into how ...

Scientists have long sought to understand why sea spiders keep some of their most important organs in their legs.

Scientists have decoded the sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing how its strangely shaped body—with organs in ...

It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out ...

Scientists have filmed a giant deep-sea spider crawling on the Southern Ocean floor, shedding more light on the diversity of underwater arachnids.. Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute ...

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 ...

Fact: Spiders are arachnids, not insects, and the spider was likely a harmless Cupiennius “banana spider.” Spider Facts, Spider Fiction Oliver Whang 🕷 Look out, here come the spider facts ...

Researchers identified a new species of sea spider near Antarctica’s Ross Shelf, a study said. Photo by Matt Palmer on Unsplash More than a thousand feet beneath an expansive ice shelf, a ...