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 ...

Researchers sequenced the knotty sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing a missing gene that many other animals ...

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 ...

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

To confirm the sea spiders really were eating the bacteria, the researchers also used a radioactive labelling technique to track how the carbon in methane was consumed by the sea spiders in the lab.

Meet the recently discovered sea spiders that eat bacteria that feed on methane in the deep ocean ...

Eight legs, thousands of feet below... and one very unique discovery! Here's the story behind how certain sea spiders use ...

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.