Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. close up of a black sea spider's abdomen which has attached gelatinous egg sacs filled with tiny, shiny black eggs Three ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even thousands of feet below the water's surface, no arachnophobe is truly safe from spiders. And, thanks to a discovery by a team ...

Researchers have discovered three new sea spider species that are powered by methane deep beneath the ocean. Shana Goffredi, a biologist at Occidental College and the study’s senior author, tells Erin ...

Spider-like creatures living near methane seeps on the seafloor appear to cultivate and consume microbial species on their bodies that feed on the energy-rich gas. This expands the set of organisms ...

Nature finds a way. Even in the most inhospitable conditions on Earth, life figures out how to not only survive but flourish. Take sea spiders, for example. A new study by researchers at Occidental ...

Heat-trapping methane may be best known for the dangers it poses to humans and Earth’s atmosphere, but in the dark depths of the ocean, the greenhouse gas is a nourishing meal for some of the world’s ...

Shana Goffredi didn’t plan on discovering a new species when she set out to explore the deep underwater areas off the coasts of Southern California and Alaska. Goffredi and other researchers were ...

Researchers found a new sea spider with a giant nose, leg cannons, and—most remarkably—a novel way of surviving in the lightless, freezing environment miles below the sea surface. These oceanic ...

You never know what you might find on a deep-sea dive. Crushing pressures can yield big discoveries, or in some cases, very small. Bianca Dal Bó is a recent graduate from LA’s Occidental College, and ...

Our oceans are a place of constant contrast. Calm surface waters hide a world of darkness, pressure, and strange life forms ...

Even thousands of feet below the water's surface, no arachnophobe is truly safe from spiders. And, thanks to a discovery by a team of scientists, three more species have been added to the list of ...