Nature

One spider spends its entire life underwater, breathing from a bubble it wove itself

The diving bell spider builds a dome-shaped web between underwater plants and fills it with air carried down from the surface on its hairy abdomen, creating a silk 'diving bell' it can live, hunt, molt and even mate inside. The bubble acts like a gill, pulling in dissolved oxygen from the surrounding water as it's used up. It's the only spider species known to spend essentially its whole life submerged.

Described in Journal of Experimental Biology research, Diving bell spider (Argyroneta aquatica) — Species account

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