Sea spiders, or pycnogonida ... this that allows many of them to grow to such immense sizes without collapsing under their own weight,” the institute explained. The inaccessibility of deep ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

The ocean holds many bizarre deep-sea monsters. As you dive 140 meters ... but those 50 rows of teeth are for filtering krill. The Japanese spider crab is happy to welcome you to 300 meters ...

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 ...

Sea spiders can regrow body parts after amputation and not just limbs, according to a study released on Monday that may pave the way for further scientific research into regeneration.

Sea spiders, or pycnogonida, are a distant cousin of terrestrial ... and it is this that allows many of them to grow to such immense sizes without collapsing under their own weight,” the institute ...