Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute noticed the sea spider, the size of a dinner plate, about 2km beneath the icy surface waters of the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of volcanic islands ...

Schmidt Ocean Institute representatives described sea spiders as both "abundant" and "abundantly large" in polar regions. There are roughly 1,500 species of sea spider known to science and likely many ...

Pink and bulbous "sea pigs", hand-sized sea spiders and delicate sea butterflies are among the bizarre animals hauled up from the ocean floor by a team of Australian researchers aboard the ...

Pyconogonids, or sea spiders, are found throughout the world ... large” size is attributed to a phenomenon seen in polar regions called deep-sea gigantism, the institute said.

Scientists also got their hands on sea spiders during the voyage. Despite their name, sea spiders are more closely related to crabs, but like arachnids they have an exoskeleton and eight legs.

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 “abundantly large” in polar regions due to ...