Fledgling crustaceans have eyes like the sea, a peculiarity that could help them hide from predators. Young shrimp, crab or lobster larvae already rock nearly translucent bodies to stay out of view.

Taylor Swift wore a Monterey Bay Aquarium sea otter T-shirt that helped raise more than $2 million. But now the crustaceans are crabby.

Thousands of dead and dying crabs and lobsters washed up along a 50km stretch of England’s north-east coast last autumn. Observers reported seeing the animals experience peculiar behaviours including ...

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 ...

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 ...

Crustaceans occupy a wide range of environments while relying on surprisingly optimized survival strategies. Their success comes from balancing defense mobility reproduction and adaptability with ...

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, insects and mushrooms are rich sources of the dietary fiber chitin, which activates the immune system and benefits metabolism, according to a new study in mice. Who can forget the stomach ...

David Foster Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster” was perhaps the first (or, at the very least, the most poignant) mainstream essay to rail against the idea of boiling animals alive before we eat them.

Some say the hiss that sounds when crustaceans hit the boiling water is a scream (it's not, they don't have vocal cords). But lobsters and crabs may want to since a new report suggests that they could ...

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 ...