Hermit Crab Changes Shell & Hermit in a Bottle “After having looked for years, we finally saw a hermit crab in the act of switching…
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Yicaris – Progenitor of the Crustacea
Finding any new fossil is rare. Finding invertebrate fossils is made even more rare because of the squishy nature of most invertebrates. Sometimes the wandering…
View More Yicaris – Progenitor of the CrustaceaYour 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)Mad 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 seaIsabel Farfante 1916-2009
As a taxonomist and marine biologist, it is very hard to lose “one of us”. There are not many around and each loss is a…
View More Isabel Farfante 1916-2009100 Million Year Old Giant Sperm
Barnacles may have big penises but ostracodes of the superfamily Cypridoidea have giant sperm. Ostracode range are mostly near a millimeter but sperm range from…
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