Scientists have discovered three new species of sea spider off the US West Coast that appear to survive by teaming up with bacteria to feed on methane seeping from the ocean floor. The spiders, each ...

Arachnophobes might cherish the idea of a world without spiders, but consider this: Without them, the planet would be covered in a thick, wriggling blanket of other bugs. Researchers writing in the ...

Apparently, there are methane-powered sea spiders lurking among us—or, at least, at the bottom of the ocean. “Three undescribed sea spider species (family Ammotheidae; genus Sericosura) endemic to ...