Here’s a mystery: below 8,400 meters there are no fish. There are other creatures: sea cucumbers, anemones, tiny worms, but no one has ever seen…
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Category: Crustacean
Celebrity Wax Sculptures for Snails
Snails taste good. Well snails taste good to crabs. In fact almost every facet of certain snail’s lives is completely dictated by crabs. Crabs regulate…
View More Celebrity Wax Sculptures for SnailsRoger Norman Bamber (1949-2015)
I asked Tammy Horton, a noted expert on crustaceans, to write this post about the life of her colleague and friend Roger. Roger will be…
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The Animals of the Musashi Battleship
On November 1st, 1940 the Imperial Japanese Navy launched the Yamato Class Battleship the Musashi. She and her sister ship, Yamato, were the heaviest and most powerfully…
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For Hoff Yeti Crabs Food, Sex, and Birth Determine Living Space At Vents
Within just a few short centimeters the temperature drops from 350˚C to -1.5˚C (692 to 29.3˚F). At 2.6 kilometers deep in the Antarctic Ocean lies the East…
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These are a few of my favorite species: Hermit crabs without shells
Hermit crabs are generally awesome. They use snail shells, and sometime shells of other mollsucs, to protect their non-skeletonized squishy backends. Some are even adapted…
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Six surprising reasons to be thankful for the sea
The oceans provides us with most of the oxygen we breath, much of the food we eat, and even all the water we drink, which has passed…
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These are a Few of My Favorite Species: Pistol Shrimp
My dream day includes Clint Eastwood and I drinking bourbon, smoking cigars, and watching The Outlaw Josey Wales. At one of the most memorable moments in…
View More These are a Few of My Favorite Species: Pistol ShrimpThe official anthology of Rick Ross rapping about crustaceans
I generally bow to Dr. M and Alex when it comes to rap music knowledge, but I’m just going to add this little factlet to the…
View More The official anthology of Rick Ross rapping about crustaceansA Narrative of Coral-Dwelling Barnacles With the Aid of Internet Memes
Not everything on a coral is actually a coral. Embedded into the hard coral’s surfaces are nearly 100 species of specialized barnacles—the Pyrgomatidae. New work…
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