The specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.

Universidade de Aveiro co-chief scientist Patricia Esquete inspects a suspected new species of isopod. Describing all the new species is expected to take "years". A solitary hydroid drifts in ...

The cluster of cyclidan crustaceans, which has been preserved for hundreds of millions of years, shows that these animals might have had similar defense strategies to their living relatives.

Giant and supergiant isopods, which are a type of crustacean, play an important role in the health of the deep-sea food chain as they are part of the clean-up crew feeding on decomposing organic ...

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Scientists have discovered a new crustacean species after examining samples purchased from Vietnamese fishermen. Because its head resembles Darth Vader's famous helmet from Star Wars, the species has ...

A “cute” seafloor creature resembling a Christmas tree topper gave marine researchers a lesson in deceit when it sprang to life in the South Pacific and gobbled up another animal. The rarely observed ...

Isopods are essential to our planet’s ecosystem, and although they are small, they are certainly mighty. Detritivore isopods eat decomposing organic matter, which includes fallen leaves, fruits, ...

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We focus on the Crustacea, measuring the morphological differentiation of limbs. First, we show a clear trend of increasing complexity among 66 free-living, ordinal-level taxa from the Phanerozoic ...