Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Sea spiders found farming methane-eating <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microbes</span></a> in cultivated biofilm <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-06-sea-spiders-farming-methane-microbes.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-06-sea-spid</span><span class="invisible">ers-farming-methane-microbes.html</span></a></p><p>Diverse, epibiotic <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/methanotrophs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>methanotrophs</span></a> serve as a source of nutrition for <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/DeepSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSea</span></a> methane seep Sericosura. By Bianca Dal Bó et al. <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501422122" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501</span><span class="invisible">422122</span></a></p><p>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MethaneSeeps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MethaneSeeps</span></a> are areas of the seafloor where <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/methane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>methane</span></a> forms flourishing ecosystems... 3 species of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SeaSpiders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeaSpiders</span></a> were discovered to host dense layers of CH4-consuming microbes on their exoskeletons... and graze upon them with specialized mouthparts"</p>