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 ...

Even thousands of feet below the water's surface, no arachnophobe is truly safe from spiders. And, thanks to a discovery by a team of scientists, three more species have been added to the list of ...

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 ...

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Nature finds a way. Even in the most inhospitable conditions on Earth, life figures out how to not only survive but flourish. Take sea spiders, for example. A new study by researchers at Occidental ...

The knotty sea spider, Pycnogonum litorale, is not actually a spider, but it does represent a significant early branch in the genetic family tree that includes spiders, as well as scorpions, ticks and ...

For the first time ever, the genome of a knotty sea spider was sequenced in high resolution. Prashant Sharma / University of Wisconsin Though sea spiders have thrived for millions of years in a ...

Heat-trapping methane may be best known for the dangers it poses to humans and Earth’s atmosphere, but in the dark depths of the ocean, the greenhouse gas is a nourishing meal for some of the world’s ...

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