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 ...

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 ...

A recently published study explores the relationship between sea spiders and bacteria. Discover more and meet one of the ...

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

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

Scientists say the three species use methane, with the help of bacteria, to get energy while helping prevent methane from escaping the deep sea.

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 the evolution of almost everything with eight legs. But that's the ...

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 ...