Crustaceans occupy a wide range of environments while relying on surprisingly optimized survival strategies. Their success ...

Fledgling crustaceans have eyes like the sea, a peculiarity that could help them hide from predators. Young shrimp, crab or lobster larvae already rock nearly translucent bodies to stay out of view.

It has long been known that insects such as bees help plants reproduce, by spreading pollen from one plant to another. Now, however, a similar arrangement has been discovered in the undersea world – ...

The live boiling of crustaceans such as lobsters, crabs, shrimp and prawns is due to be banned in the UK due to animal welfare concerns. While there is significant evidence that crustaceans are both ...

Quick Take England will ban live boiling of lobsters, a nerve-center policy change set to come into force as part of animal ...

Snow-white deep-sea crabs populate the seabed near hydrothermal vents. Oldenburg microbiologist Thorsten Brinkhoff was on the track of the animals with the submersible Alvin. Hydrothermal vents on the ...

Crustaceans, insects and mushrooms are rich sources of the dietary fiber chitin, which activates the immune system and benefits metabolism, according to a new study in mice. Who can forget the stomach ...

In search of answers on how underwater plants are pollinated, scientists have recently discovered the bees of the sea. For centuries, scientists believed that pollination of seagrasses like dioecious ...

Hematodinium spp. are parasitic dinoflagellates that pose a serious threat to both wild and cultured crustacean populations across the globe. Infections by these pathogens are associated with ...

A small woodlouse-like crustacean seems to help fertilise red seaweed in rock pools, much as a bee pollinates flowers. This suggests that such behaviour is more common in the oceans than we thought, ...

Trilobites may have grown in a similar fashion and reached ages that match those of extant crustaceans, a new study has found. Trilobites -- extinct marine arthropods that roamed the world's oceans ...