So a good friend of mine asked this weekend on Facebook what kind of crabs are the fightiest. Great question! First, for the sake of…
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Your Happiness Kills Crustaceans
Nearly 30-90% of the pharmaceuticals we digest are excreted in its active form. These active pharmaceuticals collect sewage systems and eventually make their way to…
View More Your Happiness Kills CrustaceansFiddler Crabs Moult for a Breath of Fresh Air
Everyone knows that all crabs moult. Its no secret. When you wear you skeleton on the outside, its difficult to find the room to grow.…
View More Fiddler Crabs Moult for a Breath of Fresh AirIsopods Cause Reproductive Death in Shrimp
Isopods, you know them as those adorable little roly-poly bugs under rocks in the forest or the gigantic Bathynomus of the deep sea. They are…
View More Isopods Cause Reproductive Death in ShrimpAbsolute Awesomeness of Arthropods Vol. I (#invwars)
They get huge! And can take down a frikkin house! Also, dey vill piiiiiiiiinch yooooo!!!!
View More Absolute Awesomeness of Arthropods Vol. I (#invwars)Even Tiny Copepods Are More Awesome Than a Slimey Mollusc
Sam over at Oceanographer’s Choice knows what is up. There really is no way anything other than a member of the Arthropoda could even be…
View More Even Tiny Copepods Are More Awesome Than a Slimey MolluscMolluscs, now with 100% more awesum
A blog war is starting to develop again. No I am not talking about this one. I am talking about the Great Invertebrate Wars. Everything was…
View More Molluscs, now with 100% more awesumMad Taxonomic Skillz III – Crustacean Hunt!
This week’s Mad Taxonomic Skillz challenge will utilize the awesome freely available resource for everything crustacean – Crustacea.net! We think that if crustaceans were easier…
View More Mad Taxonomic Skillz III – Crustacean Hunt!Pycnogonids, more than spiders of the sea
Much of the earth’s biodiversity lies within the phylum Arthropoda. You are probably aware of many species within the group trilobites, spiders, centipedes, crabs, insects,…
View More Pycnogonids, more than spiders of the seaKevin Zelnio…New and Improved…Now With 30% More Shrimp!
KZ is now among the scientifically published. Occurring this week in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington is “A new species of Alvinocaris…
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