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

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

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

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

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

Scientists discovered three new species of sea spiders that live near the ocean floor and feast on bacteria that convert ...

An international collaboration featuring the University of Vienna and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) has led to ...

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

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 ...

The sea spiders help prevent methane from escaping deep sea Scientists said they continue to study the spiders' role in the ecosystem. "We don’t yet know their full role in their ecosystem just yet.