Far beneath the wavetops, down into the dark ocean depths, a rarely seen crustacean makes its home. It's called Alicella gigantea, and it's the largest known species of amphipod, a shrimp-like species ...

Kochi: Researchers from Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) discovered a new genus and species of marine crustacean (those with hard shell and jointed legs, like crabs or shrimp) from ...

A bizarre new predator has been discovered lurking 26,000 feet below the ocean's surface and has been named after its pitch-black home. The new crustacean was discovered deep in the Atacama Trench ...

In order to examine the marine-terrestrial transition and resulting biological adaptations, the researchers investigated talitrids, a group of small crustaceans that live in a variety of regions and ...

Small marine crustaceans are as valuable as key coastal habitats for storing carbon and should be similarly protected, according to new research. Small marine crustaceans are as valuable as key ...

Armed with kaleidoscopic eyesight, the ability to send secret messages and a punch so fast it can boil water, mantis shrimps are a force to be reckoned with. What is a mantis shri ...

There are 970 known species of marine crustaceans in Hawaiian waters. The life cycle of a marine crustacean follows a highly complex series of larval changes. The banded spiny lobster (Panulirus ...

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 Triarthrus eatoni trilobite, order Ptychopariida, family Olenidae, 11 mm long, found in the Frankfort Shale, New York, USA, from the Upper Ordovician. Credit: Dwergenpaartje / Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 3 ...