Rando Tuvikene, Associate Professor of Chemistry from Tallinn University School of Natural Sciences and Health spent three years with partners from Norway, Romania and Greece studying how the ...
Snow-white deep-sea crabs populate the seabed near hydrothermal vents. Oldenburg microbiologist Thorsten Brinkhoff was on the track of the animals with the submersible Alvin. Hydrothermal vents on the ...
A tiny crustacean pulled from the Pacific seafloor has forced taxonomists to redraw a corner of the tree of life. In a March ...
An oft-cited aphorism to defend eating crustaceans -- or not caring about crustaceans -- is the widely-accepted notion that they simply don't feel pain like we do. While that view may be held by many, ...
Laetitia Plaisance searches for crustaceans in a piece of dead coral. Photo courtesy of Laetitia Plaisance Despite having offices just across the National Mall from each other, it was in the tiny town ...
Some big plant-eating dinosaurs roaming present-day Utah some 75 million years ago were slurping up crustaceans on the side, a behavior that may have been tied to reproductive activities, says a new ...
Crustaceans have their origins in the Latin word crustaceus, which translates to “with a crust.” The word itself stems from crusta, which means “outer covering” or “shell.”The word was introduced into ...
Fossilized dinosaur feces are challenging some basic assumptions about dinosaur eating habits. Hadrosaurs, a kind of duck-billed dinosaur, are among the most common herbivores of the Cretaceous period ...
Some big plant-eating dinosaurs roaming present-day Utah some 75 million years ago were slurping up crustaceans on the side, a behavior that may have been tied to reproductive activities, says a new ...