A ship run by Schmidt Institute was heading for Bellingshausen Sea when an iceberg broke clean, exposing 510 square kilometres of previously inaccessible ocean.

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute noticed the sea spider, the size of a dinner plate, about 2km beneath the icy surface waters of the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of volcanic islands ...

The species was named Haliskia peterseni, the former derived from the Greek words ἅλς (háls), meaning sea, and σκῐᾱ́ (skiā́), ...