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Ethan Freedman

Newly discovered Antarctic sea spider with 'boxing glove' claws pulled up from ocean floor

Austropallene halanychi is a newly discovered species of sea spider found off the coast of Antarctica.

A strange, yellow, spider-like creature with four near-black eyes and large bulbous claws has been pulled from the depths of the ocean off Antarctica.

The never-before-seen animal is a sea spider — a distant relative of horseshoe crabs and arachnids that live on the ocean floor, eat through a straw-like proboscis instead of a mouth and breathe through their legs.Scientists have discovered more than 1,000 species of sea spiders all over the world.

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