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 ...

The growth rate of the atmospheric abundance of methane (CH 4) reached a record high of 15.4 ppb yr −1 between 2020 and 2022, but the mechanisms driving the accelerated CH 4 growth have so far been ...

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.

The Northshire Bookstore is proud to host author and biologist Karen Lloyd to discuss her book "Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth." The event will take place ...

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 ...

“Sea spiders at hydrothermal vents and methane seeps are understudied,” Goffredi and her colleagues explained in the new study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Inactive and abandoned oil and gas wells in Canada are a much bigger climate problem than previously thought, emitting seven times more methane than the official estimates, according to a new ...