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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Methane is a menace to Earth’s climate, but to tiny spiders in the pitch-black depths of the ocean, it’s fuel for life. In a bizarre twist of nature, scientists have discovered three previously ...

Giant sea spiders, icefish with milky-white blood and 200 year-old coral communities are some of the creatures scientists came across when an iceberg the size of Chicago broke off. Thom Linley, a deep ...

In the south Atlantic, north of Antarctica, a group of islands is one of the most remote island chains in the world. The ecosystem is home to seamounts, hydrothermal vents, deep-sea trenches and ...

Joros don’t typically pose serious threats to humans. But their autumnal abundance does appear to be the source of ...

After crafting a gauzy web, a spider might reckon that the construction isn’t complete. Some spiders, known as orb weavers, ...

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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