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Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a ...
STRANGE creatures dredged up from the Antarctica seafloor by scientists may have previously been undiscovered. Australian ...
Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute noticed the sea spider, the size of a dinner plate, about 2km beneath the icy surface waters of the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of volcanic islands ...
A ship run by Schmidt Institute was heading for Bellingshausen Sea when an iceberg broke clean, exposing 510 square ...
“Huge spider alert! This is a pycnogonid,” researchers ... and they range in size from infinitesimally small to large enough to rival a dinner plate or moderately-sized serving platter.” ...
Scientists have captured stunning video of a dinner-plate-size sea spider crawling on the seafloor off the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of volcanic islands near Antarctica in one of the most remote ...
If you ask an arachnophile, "Are spiders dangerous to humans?" They will likely respond that most spiders are not harmful to ...
These include sea spiders "as big as your hand", sea stars "that grow to the size of a dinner plate" and octopus species endemic to the region, according to Professor Jan Strugnell, from James Cook ...
Australian scientists have announced the collection of samples from potential new marine species during their research in ...
Scientists aboard Australia’s RSV Nuyina have discovered rare marine life and a jade-colored iceberg during a 60-day ...