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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists discover sea spiders living off methane-eating bacteria in deep-sea seeps, revealing new species and unique symbiotic survival strategies ...

Field teams collected specimens with ROVs and Alvin dives. Live sea spiders were incubated aboard research vessels in seawater enriched with 13 C-labeled methane and methanol.. During the ...

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.

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