Many animals use venoms for self-defense or hunting. The components of such venom, known as toxins, interfere with various ...

Miranda Lowe, Principal Curator of Crustacea, explains some of what we know so far about these giant waterborne relatives of the pill bug. There are a lot of animals living on the seabed that seem ...

Friday, the Dungeness crab was officially declared California’s state crustacean.  Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that makes ...

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California now has three more state symbols, as of law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom: The Dungeness crab, the banana slug and the black abalone seashell.

Scientists in New Zealand said Tuesday they have discovered a new species of "ghost shark", a type of fish that prowls the Pacific Ocean floor hunting prey more than a mile down.

It looks a bit like a centipede except it's not. It's a whole new class of crustacea (lobsters, crabs, shrimp, etc) that lives in undersea caves. "Class is actually quite a high category.

“Jellyfish are gelatinous and jelly-like,” explains Miranda Lowe CBE, our Principal Curator of Crustacea and Cnidaria. “They have a curved, bell-shaped body with tentacles hanging down from the ...

With all crabs, the shells should be vibrant in colour and have a fresh sea aroma. Like all crustacea, as they grow they drop their shell, and the soft-shell process begins. At the moment all ...

IN the Decapod Crustacea the female possesses characteristically long non-plumose setæ on many of the abdominal, and in some cases certain of the posterior thoracic, appondages. It is to these ...

Ecdysone, or molting hormone, may also have behavioral effects on insects and crustacea, although these have not been as well-investigated. In contrast to insects, bag cell hormones control egg ...

This is very unlike neurons in insects and crustacea, where the cell body is generally not excitable and is not near the “decision point” for the neuron. Above is a schematic diagram of the collection ...