There’s a New Sea Spider in Town
- What has hairy feet, legs dotted with eggs, and a mouth loaded with tentacles like a Sarlacc from Star Wars?
- That’s how researchers from the University of British Columbia describe seven such creatures from the Salish Sea in a new paper published in the journal Organisms Diversity & Evolution.
- They include five known species plus a couple of new ones, marking the first discovery in a century of new sea spiders in the region.
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- What has hairy feet, legs dotted with eggs, and a mouth loaded with tentacles like a Sarlacc from Star Wars?
- That’s how researchers from the University of British Columbia describe seven such creatures from the Salish Sea in a new paper published in the journal Organisms Diversity & Evolution.
- They include five known species plus a couple of new ones, marking the first discovery in a century of new sea spiders in the region.
Sources: Nautil