Giant Antarctic sea spiders weather warming by getting holey
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 09:50
in Biology & Nature
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. Zoologists went to Antarctica to test the prevailing theory -- the 'oxygen-temperature hypothesis' -- that animals living in extreme cold can grow to giant sizes because their metabolisms are very slow.