crustaceans

Crustaceans form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group can be treated as a subphylum under the clade Mandibulata. It is now well accepted that the hexapods emerged deep in the Crustacean group, with the completed group referred to as Pancrustacea. Some crustaceans are more closely related to insects and the other hexapods than they are to certain other crustaceans. The 67,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at 0.1 mm, to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span of up to 3.8 m and a mass of 20 kg. Like other arthropods, crustaceans have an exoskeleton, which they moult to grow.

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Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans

Why Are Tuna Crabs Swarming Off the Coast of San Diego? Scientists are perplexed by the massive group of crustaceans, but they suspect the animals were pushed north by strong ocean currents originating near Mexico

Some crustaceans have evolved a way to make silk

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Three-eyed distant relative of insects and crustaceans reveals amazing detail of early animal evolution

Glassy eyes may help young crustaceans hide from predators in plain sight

Light shows by these tiny crustaceans reveal rich biodiversity on Caribbean reefs

The world could create more sustainable batteries with an unusual source: crustaceans. In a paper published this week in the journal Matter, researchers say they have made a biodegradable battery with a substance found in crab and lobster shells.

Crustaceans Discovered 'Pollinating' Seaweeds in Scientific First

These Pollinating Crustaceans Are the Bees of the Sea

Like bees of the sea, crustaceans ‘pollinate’ seaweed

In a First, Tiny Crustaceans Are Found to 'Pollinate' Seaweed like Bees of the Sea

Trilobites' growth may have resembled that of modern marine crustaceans

Do Mollusks and Crustaceans Have Emotions?

New UK bill recognizes cephalopods and some crustaceans as sentient beings

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Tiny crustaceans' show fastest repeatable movements ever seen in marine animals

These shrimplike crustaceans are the fastest snappers in the sea