Meet Melita panda, a newly discovered black-and-white crustacean with panda-like coloring, revealing Japan's coastal biodiversity.

Decades ago, Shigeyuki Yamato scanned the shallow coastal waters of southeastern Japan and saw something stand out from the ...

The Melita panda, a newly classified amphipod species found in Japan, illustrates the critical role of taxonomy in ...

Melita panda是在日本发现的一种新分类的端足类动物物种，它说明了分类学在生物多样性保护中的关键作用。 该物种因其独特的熊猫般的肤色而被识别，并通过分子和形态分析得到确认，有助于我们了解沿海生物多样性。

DOG walkers have been warned as hundreds of venomous jellyfish with tentacles that can grow up to 10ft-long have been spotted ...

Although not as famous as Old Faithful Geyser or Grand Prismatic Spring, the features of West Thumb Geyser Basin are some of the most varied and beautiful in Yellowstone National Park. From hot pools ...

A panda-colored amphipod species, Melita panda, is identified in Japan. New discovery highlights gaps in Japan’s species taxonomy and biodiversit Molecular and morphological research shows Melita ...

Melitid amphipods are shrimp-like crustaceans found worldwide. The newly classified Melita panda-- named after the charismatic mammal -- was first found in the 1990s. Details of the discovery and ...

Previous work by Professor Ford has demonstrated that small shrimp-like crustaceans called amphipods that graze on seaweeds in Langstone Harbor have low sperm counts. Research by the University of ...

When the magnitude 8 Sichuan earthquake struck southern China in May 2008, it left more than 69,000 people dead and 4.3 million homeless. Now ecologists have added to these losses an assessment of the ...