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3 New Sea Spiders That ‘Eat’ Methane Discovered on the Ocean Floor

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23.06.2025
Apparently, there are methane-powered sea spiders lurking among us—or, at least, at the bottom of the ocean. According to a paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a genus of sea spiders called Sericosura feeds on Epibiotic methanotrophs. The researchers originally set out to explore methane seeps and the organisms […] The post 3 New Sea Spiders That ‘Eat’ Methane Discovered on the Ocean Floor appeared first on VICE.

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