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 ...

Picking its way across ice crystals in this stunning image is a giant Antarctic sea spider. Despite its name and appearance, it is not actually an arachnid but a pycnogonid - an invertebrate with a ...

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“These giant sea spiders, the males do care for the young, but they do it differently and they do it in a much simpler way than the other sea spiders. So it may provide a kind of a look at the ...