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 ...

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

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

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

And, thanks to a discovery by a team of scientists, three more species have been added to the list of sea-dwelling arthropods − with the special distinction of being what researchers called ...

Scientists on the US West Coast say they discovered three previously unknown species of deep-sea spider that could have a rare diet fueled by a common greenhouse gas.

This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

Sea spiders obtain oxygen by diffusing water over their thin, porous external skeleton. “They don’t have any specialized structures for gas exchange,” says Moran, co-author of a new study on ...

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 ...

This isn't slowmo. It's how a sea spider actually moves. The critter was spotted 8,675 feet deep off the coast of Vancouver by a submersible manned by Ocean Networks Canada.Clearly, it won't even ...