“In most sea spiders, the male parent takes care of the babies by carrying them around while they develop,” study co-author and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa marine invertebrate ecologist Amy Moran ...

Sea spiders may be relatively large and found in abundance in Earth's oceans, but little remains known about the mysterious marine creatures. An understanding of the reproductive habits of giant sea ...

The reproduction of giant sea spiders in Antarctica has been largely unknown to researchers for more than 140 years, until now. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists traveled to the remote ...

Sea spiders are abundant in waters across the globe, and most are so small that you could hold one on the tip of your pinkie. But in the swirling waters around our planet’s icy poles, these spiders ...

Though sea spiders have thrived for millions of years in a variety of marine conditions—in cold Antarctic waters, on deep seafloors and along rocky, estuarine shorelines—it is correct to call them ...

Scientists have long sought to understand why sea spiders keep some of their most important organs in their legs. By Veronique Greenwood The knotty sea spider has a fundamental physical difference ...

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 potential ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers travelled to Antarctica to uncover a truth about the reproduction of Giant Antarctic sea spiders that has been unknown for over 140 years.

The reproduction of giant sea spiders in Antarctica has been largely unknown to researchers for more than 140 years, until now. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists traveled to the remote ...