The ecosystem is home to seamounts, hydrothermal vents, deep-sea trenches and species found only in its freezing water. They are called the South Sandwich Islands, and researchers with the Schmidt ...

tells The Atlantic. “Unlike us, with our centrally located guts that are all confined to a single body cavity, the guts of sea spiders branch multiple times and sections of gut tube go down to the end ...

The remote South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic are a perfect place to find new and rarely seen species, and a Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition in the region is finding many of those species ...

Sea spiders use their spindly legs to scuttle ... Islands are east of Argentina and north of Antarctica in the south Atlantic.

Sea spiders use their spindly legs to scuttle ... Islands are east of Argentina and north of Antarctica in the south Atlantic. Irene Wright is a McClatchy Real-Time reporter.