Prehistoric times had no shortage of pretty scary creatures, but you need to look no further than this huge arthopod to find ...

Neuropeptides are small signaling molecules that play crucial roles in regulating various physiological processes in crustaceans and arthropods. Recent research has focused on understanding the ...

Theresa Burnham poses for a photo along Maine's working waterfront. Burnham co-led the effort to develop new socioeconomic indicators for monitoring the resiliance of Maine's lobster industry.

Kent State University professors Rodney Feldmann and Carrie Schweitzer report on the oldest fossil shrimp known to date in the world. The creature in stone is as much as 360 million years old and ...

Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.

Researchers studying crustaceans in Vietnam have identified a new "supergiant" sea bug species that bears a surprising resemblance to a classic movie villain. Deep-sea sea bugs, or the Bathynomus ...

The Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) is the greatest threat to the survival of various endemic Hawaiian arthropods, including insects and crustaceans. It displaces native ant species, some of which ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of parasitic crustacean that attaches itself to black coral, Earth.com reported. The species, called Synagoga arabesque, was accessed by scuba diving scientists, ...