With the help of methane-munching-microbes, these translucent sea spiders gobble up a potent greenhouse gas to stay alive.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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

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

Nature finds a way. Even in the most inhospitable conditions on Earth, life figures out how to not only survive but flourish.

Nature finds a way. Even in the most inhospitable conditions on Earth, life figures out how to not only survive but flourish. Take sea spiders, for example. A new study by researchers at ...