For 140 years, a leggy mystery has eluded scientists working in Antarctica. Here, you’ll find enormous sea spiders that are a great example of something called “polar gigantism”, a phenomenon where ...

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 ...

For the first time ever, the genome of a knotty sea spider was sequenced in high resolution. Prashant Sharma / University of Wisconsin Though sea spiders have thrived for millions of years in a ...

This spider's milk has roughly four times higher protein concentration than cow's milk, along with fats and sugars.

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...