Scientists have long believed that “polar gigantism” was a result of a combination of cold-driven low metabolic rates and high oxygen availability in the polar oceans, This hypothesis is known as the ...

In the depths of the ocean, near the South Sandwich Islands, a remarkable marine creature has been filmed. This is not an ordinary spider, but a sea spider, an organism that astonishes with its ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

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It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out the evolution of almost everything with eight legs. But that's the potential ...

Germany's nature conservation group NABU has for years tracked the spread of the giant Nosferatu spider. It has now reached the Baltic, common in Rügen and Usedom. How dangerous is it? View on euronew ...