Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa traveled to Antarctica to observe the reproductive habits of the mysterious giant sea spiders.

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.

Sea spiders, which range in size from around a millimetre long to the size of a large dinner plate, have relatively tiny torsos and six pairs of long, lanky legs. For these creatures, legs are for ...

Sea spiders occupy marine habitats the world over, in both deep and shallow waters. But until now, scientists were not able to pinpoint the mechanism that allows them to breathe underwater in the ...

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TOBA, Mie Prefecture--Toba Aquarium curator Takeya Moritaki gasped in shock when he saw a large sea spider feasting on a sea anemone. But it wasn’t the spectacle that startled Moritaki ...

You can find a sea spider living in marine habitats all over the world, from shallow waters to the deep sea. They have the same eight legs you'd expect from land spiders, and like most species of ...