Giant Antarctic sea spiders weather warming by getting holey
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 09:10
in Earth & Climate
Scientists have wondered for decades why marine animals that live in the polar oceans and the deep sea can reach giant sizes there, but nowhere else. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa zoology PhD student Caitlin Shishido, with UH researcher Amy Moran and colleagues at the University of Montana, went to Antarctica to test the prevailing theory–the ‘oxygen-temperature hypothesis’-that animals living in extreme cold can […]