The crustaceans that smell their way home Tiny crustaceans called mysids ( Hemimysis margalefi ) can use ‘smell’ to find their way back from the open sea to the caves where they live .

Crabs, shrimps, lobsters, barnacles, slaters and other crustaceans are the stars of a new mini exhibition at Ashburton Art ...

Thought to lurk underground in the dark, honeycomb-like recesses between two Edwards Aquifer springs in central Texas, the elusive Peck's cave amphipod depends on steady spring flows and clean water ...

Male of the invasive amphipod species (Ptilohyale littoralis), sampled in October 2015, from Bay of Arcachon, France. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

They mainly eat amphipod crustaceans, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, and their only major predators are ...

Giant isopods look like monstrously sized woodlice and can live in the deep sea, beyond the reach of daylight. But how much do we really know about the lives of these crustaceans? Despite their ...

Crayfish eye extracts contain two visual pigments resembling in spectrum vertebrate rhodopsin and iodopsin. In these crayfish, as in primates, the “iodopsin” appears to be the red sensitive ...

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The Earth is currently experiencing its sixth major extinction event. One million species globally are at risk of extinction in the next few decades, including 27 percent of the world’s mammals, 41 ...

Drawing on over 300 scientific studies, we have evaluated the evidence of sentience in two groups of invertebrate animals: the cephalopod molluscs or, for short, cephalopods (including octopods, squid ...

Organisms colonizing new habitats can undergo adaptive change due to novel selective landscapes encountered in the new environment. Examples in nature where the development of the same traits has ...