A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been seen by human eyes, revealing a vibrant, thriving ecosystem ...

a chain of volcanic islands near Antarctica. Sea spiders, or pycnogonida, are a distant cousin of terrestrial spiders and can grow to over 50cm in leg span. They may be “abundant” and ...

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 ...

Along with understanding the impacts of warmer waters in the Antarctic region ... These include sea spiders "as big as your hand", sea stars "that grow to the size of a dinner plate" and octopus ...

In the south Atlantic, north of Antarctica ... 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 ...