A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain structure to modern spiders, suggesting that ...

An understanding of the reproductive habits of giant sea spiders in Antarctica, for instance, has eluded marine biologists ever since the species was discovered more than 140 years ago.

Giant Antarctic Sea Spiders’ Reproductive Secrets Finally Revealed After 140 Years New research has solved some of the mysteries surrounding the curious creatures' egg-handling, ...

The reproduction of giant sea spiders in Antarctica has been largely unknown to researchers for more than 140 years, until now. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists traveled to the remote ...

With four eyes, long legs and claws, a new species of sea spider was discovered lurking in the frosty depths of Antarctica. Researchers happened upon the creature, known as the Austropallene ...

A newly discovered species of sea spider was pulled up from more than 1,800 feet below the surface of Antarctica's Ross Sea. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Related: Newly discovered Antarctic sea spider with 'boxing glove' claws pulled up from ocean floor. Sea spiders are among the few marine arthropods whose males exclusively care for their offspring.

Antarctic sea spiders are found all the way along the coast of Antarctica, at depths of more than 1800 metres. While they certainly look like a spider, Antarctic sea spiders are no spiders at all.

An Antarctic sea spider (Ammothea glacialis) about 6 inches long struggles under the weight of numerous stalked barnacles growing on top of it. These pesky protrusions are not only heavy, ...

Sea spiders are often tiny, but Antarctic species grow to dinner-plate size. Even stranger are their internal organs. Their genitals and parts of their guts are found in their legs.

There is nothing like a sea spider. Really. Ask Amy L. Moran, who dives under the Antarctic ice to collect and study the giant species that live in those cold waters. “Everything that they do is ...