While operating the deep-sea robot nearly 7,000 feet below the surface, the machine’s camera captured a creature that appeared to be “all legs” walking across the seafloor, according to a March 18 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ecosystem is home to seamounts, hydrothermal vents, deep ... spiders we see on land, the institute said, but look like they are missing a central body for the legs to connect. Pyconogonids, or ...