Three newly-discovered species of deep sea 'spiders' farm methane-eating bacteria on their own bodies in a symbiosis quite ...

Scientists say they have discovered three previously unknown, unnamed species of sea spider off the U.S. West Coast that ...

The research offers new insights on interactions between creatures on the mysterious seafloor and sheds light on the methane ...

A research team led by Occidental College has identified a previously unknown symbiosis; deep sea spiders that cultivate and ...

While these Sericosura species are the first sea spiders caught feeding on the methane-fueled microbes, other deep-sea animals such as tube worms and sponges are known to share the rare diet ...

Heat-trapping methane may be best known for the dangers it poses to humans and Earth’s atmosphere, but in the dark depths of ...

One of three methane-eating, deep-sea spider species recently discovered off the Southern California coast. One of three ...

While the Sericosura spiders are the first of their kind caught feeding on methane-fueled microbes, they’re not alone in ...

They are followed by books that focus more closely on the interconnections between the oceans and climate change. Two books ...

If you want to understand the deep ocean, you need to get down there and see what kind of rocks and sediment are there, learn about the corals and sponges and other animals living there, she says.

Scientists are conducting a pioneering large-scale deep-sea coral restoration in the Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which damaged 1,994 square kilometers (770 ...

Red Sea diving is not uncommon, but fewer people are familiar with the dive sites off the coast of Saudi Arabia. Here, we ...