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The giant sea spider shown in the above photographs is not a recent discovery by scientists, as these same images have been circulating on the Internet at least as far back as mid-2013. The interdigital webbing (which is found in mammals, not in arthropods with exoskeletons) and the unbelievably long and bony tail exhibited in these images mark this creature as an unrealistic fake, likely based on a prop of the Queen Facehugger organism from the Alien series of movies: There are real species of animals known as sea spiders, and some of them do inhabit the waters of the Arctic and Antarctic, but they look nothing like the example shown above in size or appearance. An unknown species of sea spider was discovered near Antarctica in March 2008, but it barely resembled the example shown here: it was very different in color (bright red rather than black), had no interdigital webbing, had no tail, and (even though it was described as gargantuan for this type of sea creature) was less than ten inches long:
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