Eight legs, thousands of feet below... and one very unique discovery! Here's the story behind how certain sea spiders use ...

According to the National Academy of Science the 3 new species use methane, with the help of bacteria, to get energy.

Other types of sea spiders that don’t live near seeps largely eat other invertebrates. But the researchers found the new sea ...

This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

Three newly-discovered species of deep sea 'spiders' farm methane-eating bacteria on their own bodies in a symbiosis quite ...

The research offers new insights on interactions between creatures on the mysterious seafloor and sheds light on the methane ...

A research team led by Occidental College has identified a previously unknown symbiosis; deep sea spiders that cultivate and ...

Scientists on the US West Coast say they discovered three previously unknown species of deep-sea spider that could have a ...

The Lasuen Knoll methane seep off the coast of Southern California as photographed in 2021. Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute “These seeps host an amazing array of microbial processes that we are still ...

This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing ...

If the dark bottom of the ocean is like a desert, methane seeps are oases, nourishing a diversity of creatures. Seid went down there twice in a submersible. The biologists named it Alvin.

Every day, methane gas seeps from Pacific Northwest landfills and it's estimated about 30% of today’s global warming is driven by methane. Heather Kuoppamaki, senior environmental engineer at ...