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.

Researchers from the University of Gothenburg are the first to prove that painful stimuli are sent to the brain of shore crabs, providing more evidence for pain in crustaceans. EEG-style ...

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 ...