TIMES RECORD • November 11, 2021
I decided to write this week about another creepy sea creature – the sea spider. It isn’t too often that one thinks about insects in the ocean. But, consider that they are relatives of a tastier and more familiar sea creature — lobsters. While spiders and lobsters are both arthropods, so are more than 10 million other species including snails, insects and other crustaceans. It is the largest phylum of animals in the world. While it is easy to feel like land and sea are separate environments, with one group of plants and animals exclusively living in one realm and another group living in the other, sea spiders are an interesting and unexpected crossover. ~ Susan Olcott