Claudia Arango

Marine/arthropod biologist, sea spider expert, in between species discovery, phylogenies & benthic ecology when life is not in the way...

[Claudia Arango @Sea_Spiders]

Meet the only animal known to pump blood with its guts https://t.co/WJeNLix654

[Griffith University @Griffith_Uni]

Australia was once home to a group of extraordinary animals known as Megafauna. These giants lived for millions of years, but in a blink of time, they disappeared. Starring Griffith's A/Prof Julien Louys, watch Megafauna: What Killed Australia’s Giants on ABC TV tonight at 8:00pm

[Claudia Arango @Sea_Spiders]

Why giant Antarctic sea spiders are surprisingly good dads https://t.co/Sp4cBQw3U3 via @NatGeo

[Claudia Arango @Sea_Spiders]

Why giant Antarctic sea spiders are surprisingly good dads https://t.co/Sp4cBQw3U3 via @NatGeo

[Claudia Arango @Sea_Spiders]

Starting 2024 with a neat paper on tropical sea spiders development and how to make the most out of ethanol preserved marine inverts https://t.co/QW43MDKplG

[Christopher Mah, @echinoblog.bsky.social @echinoblog]

INTERESTING! a sea spider, Colossendeis feeding on this jellyfish! First time I've seen this happening! 2340 m Trinidad Slope #okeanos #pycnogonid

[Claudia Arango @Sea_Spiders]

Big news! massive analysis shows that horseshoe crabs and their fossil relatives are derived arachnids, it'll take time to digest...
https://t.co/KQ0Byln2CL

[Claudia Arango @Sea_Spiders]

@squidblubber @morroghmax agree @morroghmax! long slender legs and pointy anal tubercle, that's the Nymphon look

[Queensland Museum Kurilpa @qldmuseum]

Wondering what this sea of spiders is made up of? 😱 🕷️ Arachnologist Dr Robert Raven said they are wolf spiders trying escape floodwaters. They typically live in burrows in the ground and eventually they will try and escape the water by climbing up plants.
📸 Matt Lovenfosse

[Rudy Lerosey-Aubril @PlLife2]

1/2 #TrilobiteTuesday exoskeleton calcification occurred soon after hatching in trilobites, allowing the fossilization of early post-embryonic stages. Some of these larvae had huge hypostomes protecting the ventral soft parts, and resembled the nauplii of some modern crustaceans

[Steve Trewhella @SteveTrewhella1]

Unholy numbers of Sea spiders attracted to the light trap last night , never seen anything like it #seaspiders #seaspider #pycnogonids #pycnogonid

[DiscoveryCollections @tammy_horton]

@SteveTrewhella1 I've got some buckets of them - they are a bit bigger though...3 x 25 L buckets of Colossendeis. Interesting that they may gather occasionally (deep-sea as well as shallow!). Feeding or breeding?

[Claudia Arango @Sea_Spiders]

@SteveTrewhella1 wow, how unusual, could they be attracted to the substrate rather than the light? they look like a Nymphon species

[Claudia Arango @Sea_Spiders]

More insights and more news species of Tasmanian sea spiders... so much to learn about these yellow guys... https://t.co/wzQnhQvQlC

[Claudia Arango @Sea_Spiders]

ROV Dive 401 (Pt A) - Newly Discovered 500m Tall Reef on https://t.co/QNWUvXZEvH via @YouTube

[Claudia Arango @Sea_Spiders]

Nice Colossendeis photo! thanks @moranamyl

[Claudia Arango @Sea_Spiders]

MBE sea spider phylogeny picked up in the news 😊!

https://t.co/gN5ySogDVv

[Claudia Arango @Sea_Spiders]

Sea spider dated phylogeny in MBE! all families are in, great team of coauthors, well done!

https://t.co/QXOxxH8Fme

[Claudia Arango @Sea_Spiders]

Gorgeous #seaspider #pycnogonid! similar to a species of genus Endeis from the Great Barrier Reef caught feeding on a fire coral!

[Christopher Mah, @echinoblog.bsky.social @echinoblog]

Gorgeous BLUE Sea Spider #pycnogonid From the Bahamas Photo by Rafi Amar #flickr https://t.co/s4SsDl7TqJ

[Christopher Mah, @echinoblog.bsky.social @echinoblog]

whoops! Misunderstood the description.. this pycnogonid is from the Bahamas.

[Christopher Mah, @echinoblog.bsky.social @echinoblog]

BLUE LEGS! A gorgeous pycnogonid from the Coral Sea with eggs! Males carry eggs in sea spiders as I understand it. Image by Rafi Amar #flickr https://t.co/hq6sFLOB3V