Scientists also got their hands on sea spiders during the voyage. Despite their name, sea spiders are more closely related to crabs, but like arachnids they have an exoskeleton and eight legs.

In the depths of the ocean, near the South Sandwich Islands, a remarkable marine creature has been filmed. This is not an ordinary spider, but a sea spider, an organism that astonishes with its ...

Scientists have filmed a giant deep-sea spider crawling on the Southern Ocean floor, shedding more light on the diversity of underwater arachnids. Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute ...

Pink and bulbous "sea pigs", hand-sized sea spiders and delicate sea butterflies are among the bizarre animals hauled up from the ocean floor by a team of Australian researchers aboard the ...

Australian scientists captured a jelly-like, eyeless 'sea pig' and palm-sized spiders on a recent voyage. One of the strangest creatures was a sea pig - a bizarre type of sea-cucumber that gets ...

Pycnogonid are distant relatives of the spiders we see on land, the institute said, but look like they are missing a central body for the legs to connect. Pyconogonids, or sea spiders, are found ...

Sea spiders can regrow body parts after amputation and not just limbs, according to a study released on Monday that may pave the way for further scientific research into regeneration.

Scientists have filmed a giant deep-sea spider crawling on the Southern Ocean floor, shedding more light on the diversity of underwater arachnids. Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute noticed ...