A recently published study explores the relationship between sea spiders and bacteria. Discover more and meet one of the ...

Researchers have identified several thousand species of sea spiders. Most of them live deep in the sea, at depths of over a ...

According to the study, “Methane-powered sea spiders: Diverse, epibiotic methanotrophs serve as a source of nutrition for deep-sea methane seep Sericosura,” these yet-to-be-officially ...

Scientists have long sought to understand why sea spiders keep some of their most important organs in their legs.

It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out ...

Scientists have decoded the sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing how its strangely shaped body—with organs in ...

Scientists just sequenced the first sea spider genome, uncovering genetic clues to limb growth, regeneration, and ancient ...

Sea spiders have been observed in these chemosynthetic oases in mysterious abundance. Conventional feeding modes, such as predation or filter feeding, could not explain their numbers.