Scientists discovered three new species of sea spiders that live near the ocean floor and feast on bacteria that convert ...

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

A recently published study explores the relationship between sea spiders and bacteria. Discover more and meet one of the ...

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

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Creatures referred to by researchers as "methane-powered sea spiders" manage to live on the ocean floor in a way that has not been seen before. Three previously undiscovered species of sea spiders, ...

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

Spider-like creatures living near methane seeps on the seafloor appear to cultivate and consume microbial species on their bodies that feed on the energy-rich gas. This expands the set of organisms ...

In this symbiotic relationship, bacteria take up real estate on the spider’s exoskeletons, and in return, the microbes convert carbon-rich methane and oxygen into sugars and fats the spiders can eat, ...

Methane seeps are areas of the seafloor where methane gas escapes the Earth's crust, bubbling up to form flourishing microbial ecosystems in the absence of sunlight.

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.