A ship run by Schmidt Institute was heading for Bellingshausen Sea when an iceberg broke clean, exposing 510 square kilometres of previously inaccessible ocean.

One of my favorite finds are sea spiders that look a bit like spiders but aren’t. Then there are sea squirts. Also known as tunicates or ascidians, these marine or estuarine invertebrates are ...

While operating the deep-sea robot nearly 7,000 feet below the surface, the machine’s camera captured a creature that appeared to be “all legs” walking across the seafloor, according to a March 18 ...

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 ...

Learn more about some recent sightings: In icy waters near the South Sandwich Islands, researchers have discovered a ...

Pycnogonid are distant relatives of the spiders we see on land, the institute said, but look like they are missing a central body for the legs to connect. Pyconogonids, or sea spiders, are found ...