In 2023, scientists from the Occidental College of Los Angeles collected 36 specimens of sea spider living near methane seeps ...

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

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

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 ...

The anemone, named Discoactis tritentaculata, or “umi-no-Fujisan,” which translates to “Mount Fuji of the ocean” in Japanese, ...

Scientists have, for the first time, directly observed phonon wave dynamics within self-assembling nanomaterials unlocking ...

The mesh-like fossil would push back the oldest known animal on Earth by more than 300 million years. But like many claims of very old life, the study is kicking up lively debate.

Scientists say they have discovered a new species of methane-powered spiders that live at the bottom of the ocean.

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

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

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