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

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

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Methane forms slowly over geologic time, so these seeps are a source of older carbon that started as living things. It was organic matter in the surface deposited down on the seafloor.

The team hypothesized the deep-sea, methane-seep spiders had different isotopes than expected because they fed on methane — but no animal can use methane on their own, according to Goffredi.