Meet the 'weird' sea spider that's mapping the evolution of eight-legged creatures

Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 08:06 in Paleontology & Archaeology

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 a new study finds in these spindly, strikingly strange bottom-dwellers.

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