Newly discovered Antarctic sea spider with 'boxing glove' claws pulled up from ocean floor
Newly discovered Antarctic sea spider with 'boxing glove' claws pulled up from ocean floor
www.livescience.com Newly discovered Antarctic sea spider with 'boxing glove' claws pulled up from ocean floor
A newly discovered species of sea spider was pulled up from more than 1,800 feet below the surface of Antarctica's Ross Sea.
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Put it back.
4ReplyI hate it
2ReplyThe never-before-seen animal is a sea spider — a distant relative of horseshoe crabs and arachnids that live on the ocean floor, eat through a straw-like proboscis instead of a mouth and breathe through their legs.
Neat.
Also, I wonder if it's tasty.
2ReplyIn a few years' time it's going to be one of the more appetising of the ocean's remaining foodstuffs.
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