a chain of volcanic islands near Antarctica. Sea spiders, or pycnogonida, are a distant cousin of terrestrial spiders and can grow to over 50cm in leg span. They may be “abundant” and ...

Giant foot-long sea spiders, icefish with milky-white blood, and 200 year-old coral communities - these are among the ...

Sea spiders use their spindly legs to scuttle ... The South Sandwich Islands are east of Argentina and north of Antarctica in the south Atlantic.

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

Scientists uncover a thriving ecosystem beneath an Antarctic glacier, revealing corals, octopuses, and giant sea spiders ...

The species with “deep-sea gigantism” was spotted off the remote South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica, researchers said ...

An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to ...

A colossal iceberg the size of Chicago has broken from a floating glacier in Antarctica, and like a retractable roof at a ...

Researchers and crewmembers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's Falkor (too), "seized upon the moment" and were richly ...

From giant sea spiders to "sea pigs" and "sea butterflies" — analysing the rich biodiversity in Antarctica has thrilled researchers studying the impacts of climate change.

The newfound ecosystem is filled with sea crabs, octopuses and gigantic sponges, suggesting it may have been thriving for ...