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 ...

Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a ...

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.

Australian scientists captured a jelly-like, eyeless 'sea pig' and palm-sized spiders on a recent voyage. One of the strangest creatures was a sea pig - a bizarre type of sea-cucumber that gets ...

In January, for example, researchers found corals, sponges and even giant sea spiders some 750 feet under ... are looking to a new map of the south polar region to better map global warming ...

Scientists have discovered a “thriving ecosystem” of strange deep-sea ­creatures on a newly exposed sea floor after an iceberg broke off near the Antarctic. The area, which had never before ...

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 ...

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 ...