In a new study, some juvenile sea spiders were able to regrow amputated body parts, which was previously assumed to be impossible in these marine arthropods. When you purchase through links on our ...

The spindly-legged creatures, which are not closely related to spiders, defy expectations of fatherhood in the animal kingdom. An Antarctic giant sea spider sits on the ocean floor at Dayton’s Wall, a ...

A tiny fossil of a sea creature that lived more than half a billion years ago sheds new light on the evolution of arthropods, ...

Today's spiders spend most of their time on land, scuttling through fields, forests, deserts, and just about every other terrestrial habitat that's out there. But that doesn't mean that their ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The reproduction of giant sea spiders in Antarctica has been a ...

The special brains of spiders may have started to evolve in the oceans, long before their ancestors crawled onto land. A fresh look at a 500-million-year-old fossil by researchers from the University ...

What looks like a spider but isn’t one, lives underwater and breathes through its legs? That would be the mysterious sea spider. With over 1,300 species living in every ocean, these marine arthropods ...

About 470 million years ago, 7-foot-long arthropods ruled the water in what is now Morocco. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Palaeontologists are helping resolve the evolution and ecology of Odaraia, a taco-shaped marine animal that lived during the Cambrian period. Fossils reveal Odaraia had mandibles. Palaeontologists are ...

An international collaboration featuring the University of Vienna and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) has led to the first-ever chromosome-level genome assembly of a sea spider (Pycnogonum ...

Three newly-discovered species of deep sea 'spiders' farm methane-eating bacteria on their own bodies in a symbiosis quite unlike anything seen before. Unlike animals like ourselves, who are fed by a ...