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

Scientists just sequenced the first sea spider genome, uncovering genetic clues to limb growth, regeneration, and ancient ...

Scientists have decoded the sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing how its strangely shaped body—with organs in its legs and barely any abdomen—may be tied to a missing gene. The detailed ...

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

No living arthropod is larger than the new sea monster, and only a few extinct arthropods – among them an amimal like a giant sea scorpion -- could claim to be bigger.

Sea spiders, which belong to the class Pycnogonida, are a group of around 1,300 marine arthropods with eight legs. While they look similar to terrestrial spiders they are only very distantly ...

Caption below under next figure: Image from "Giant claw reveals the largest ever arthropod" (2007), Biology Letters The arthropods we are familiar with today tend toward the small side compared to the ...

Researchers have identified several thousand species of sea spiders. Most of them live deep in the sea, at depths of over a ...

Claw-headed Sea Monster Babies Were Toothy Killing Machines. Published Jun 12, 2018 at 6:52 AM EDT Updated Jun 12, 2018 at 12:34 PM EDT. By Katherine Hignett .

The ocean is a wild habitat where any keen beachgoer could spy a myriad of marine life that comes covered in shells or swims ...