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 ...

Pycnogonum litorale, adult male feeding on a sea anemone. C: Georg Brenneis The first high-quality pycnogonid genome provides ...

Sea spiders (Pycnogonida) are marine arthropods with highly unusual anatomy: their trunk is very narrow and short, many of their internal organ systems extend into their long legs, and their ...

Researchers from the University of Vienna and the University of Wisconsin- Madison have created the first chromosome-level ...

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

Sea spiders eat a diet of worms, jellyfish, sponges, soft corals, and other soft-bodied sea creatures. The most unique feature of the sea spider’s anatomy is its legs.

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

The Southern Ocean giant sea spider is the stuff of nightmares – its leg span of 25 centimetres more or less equals that of the world’s largest land spiders like the Goliath Bird-Eating ...

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 ...

Because sea spiders have been around for 500 million years, the research may also help scientists learn more about how circulatory systems evolved in various animals. Follow Shaena Montanari on ...