Researchers reveal a dynamic geologic past for Antarctica’s Transantarctic Mountains, uncovering ancient mountain-building ...

"It shows the diversity of possible solutions that evolution sometimes ... that live in other places, and sea spiders in particular appeared prominent in Antarctica. "They're big and visible ...

It’s not every day that you meet a “sea pig” or a flying snail. But aboard an Australian ship near Antarctica ... giant sea spiders, dinner plate-sized sea stars, and sea butterflies.

Scientists studied deep-sea lifeforms while tracking the effects of climate change on Antarctica’s Denman ... Scientists also got their hands on sea spiders during the voyage.

When an iceberg the size of Chicago broke off from one of Antarctica's massive floating ... ecosystem that included icefish, giant sea spiders, octopus, corals and sponges. They suspect they ...

This phenomenon remains a subject of study for marine biologists, who seek to understand how these extreme conditions influence species evolution. Sea spiders have developed a unique feeding method ...

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 ...

The spindly-legged creatures, which are not closely related to spiders, defy expectations of fatherhood in the animal kingdom. An Antarctic giant sea spider sits on the ocean floor at Dayton’s ...

Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have found that the record-low levels of sea ice around Antarctica in 2023 were extremely unlikely to happen without the influence of climate change.

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 ...

The reproduction of giant sea spiders in Antarctica has been a puzzle for ... [Related: What an ancient jawbone reveals about polar bear evolution.] “We could hardly see the eggs even when ...