Twenty-four species of deep-sea crustacean, all previously unknown to science, have been formally described from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Mexico. Among them ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A purple claw hermit crab. There are hermits living in the St. Johns River. But before you become alarmed that we have a problem ...

Biodiversity is often equated with species numbers. A team led by LMU zoologist Professor Carolin Haug has shown that matters are a good deal more complicated than that. The researchers compared the ...

Rare evidence about the lives of an ancient group of arthropods has been uncovered in the U.S. The findings of the study are published in the journal Biology Letters. The cluster of cyclidan ...

Decades after it was first found in Japan, a crustacean species with unique black-and-white coloring resembling a panda has been confirmed to be new to science. Decades after it was first found in ...

Crustaceans exhibit a remarkable diversity of reproductive strategies, ranging from broadcast spawning in pelagic shrimps to elaborate brooding in clawed lobsters and land crabs. Sexual maturity is ...

Researchers compare the shield shapes of crabs and find unexpected differentiation. LMU researchers compare the shield shapes of crabs and find unexpected differentiation. Biodiversity is often ...