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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Newly discovered fossils of a giant, extinct sea creature show it had modified legs, gills on its back, and a filter system for feeding — providing key evidence about the early evolution of arthropods ...

Paleontologists in England discovered the existence of a new marine species that roamed the Earth before the dinosaurs and nicknamed the headless arthropod “Sue” after one of their mothers ...