WARNING: This article contains a close up image of the injury. Amphipods feed largely on dead marine animals such as fish and crabs, and are themselves prey for larger marine animals. "If we did ...
Atlantic Productions for Discovery Channel The explorers believe they have discovered four new species of prawn-like crustaceans called amphipods The first dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench ...
In lab tests, they’d watched amphipods of the species Orchestia gammarellus—tiny shrimplike crustaceans that are common in European coastal waters—devour pieces of plastic bags and ...
Over the years a few very dedicated biologists have conducted additional surveys in Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. and Maryland and have discovered eight or so additional locations where the ...
A viewer sent KXAN photos of the critters. After a bit of research, they determined the creatures were amphipods—a food source for the endangered Barton Springs Salamander. The city’s ...
Within them, researchers spotted squat lobsters, sea urchins, and small crustaceans known as amphipods. Additional specimens were collected to test their genetics and confirm whether certain ...
In one soccer-ball-size clump of sargassum, we counted 900 tiny fish larvae, 30 amphipods, 50 snails, four anemones, two flatworms, six crabs, 20 shrimps, seven nudibranchs, more than a thousand ...