The Tollund Man was c. 30-40 years old when he died by hanging c. 405-380 BCE. He wasfound in 1950 in a bog c. 10 km west of ...

China is the global leader in the renewable energy sector. Now, the country plans on digging a little deeper, 6,000 ft below ...

Scientists discovered three new species of sea spiders that live near the ocean floor and feast on bacteria that convert ...

Methane is an invisible and odourless gas, but it punches far above its weight in driving global warming. It can trap up to ...

Eight legs, thousands of feet below... and one very unique discovery! Here's the story behind how certain sea spiders use ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

Scientists on the US West Coast say they discovered three previously unknown species of deep-sea spider that could have a rare diet fueled by a common greenhouse gas.

The team hypothesized the deep-sea, methane-seep spiders had different isotopes than expected because they fed on methane — but no animal can use methane on their own, according to Goffredi.