Abstract: This article presents the development of a novel bionic robot, which is inspired by agile and fast mantis shrimp in the ocean. The developed bionic mantis shrimp robot has ten rigid-flexible ...

Flip a damp log in your backyard, and a crowd of tiny gray roly-polies usually rushes for cover. These pill bugs may look like insects, but they are actually crustaceans, distant relatives of crabs ...

Burrowing shrimp are a well-documented native pest species in Willapa Bay that have been a nuisance to bottom-culture shellfish farmers for over a century. Methods for controlling shrimp populations ...

I Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná. Caixa Postal 19020, 81531-980 Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil. E-mail: thatcher@ufpr.br II Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva, ...

The mud shrimp species Upogebia hirtifrons (White, 1847) is a member of the large and widespread Upogebiidae family. This group used to belong to the infraorder of crustaceans called the Thalassinidea ...

† Solid-Biological Interface Group (SolBIN), Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Ceará, P.O. Box 6030, 60455-900 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil ‡ Universidade Federal do Cariri, Cidade ...

A researcher on Colón Island of Panama was searching for crustaceans among the coastal mangrove forests when he saw a section of mangroves in varying stages of decay. The water was shallow and murky, ...

The Calvert Marine Museum recently announced a groundbreaking paleontological discovery in which a coprolite — fossilized feces — containing the impression of a new genus and species of parasitic ...

Researchers at The University of Tokyo studied three isopod species to understand the evolution of their respiratory structures Nagurus okinawaensis develops 'uncovered lungs' from modified swimming ...

Meet the animal kingdom’s newest little guy. This is Booralana nickorum, a recently described species of deep-sea isopod found in The Bahamas. It is a cirolanid isopod—a member of the family ...

A robot inspired by mantis shrimp has been created by a team of researchers at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University and the University of Essex. According to its developers, the robot could be used in ...

Members of the vast and diverse crustacean family, lobsters are amazing creatures that have roamed the seas for over 480 million years. Lobsters are invertebrates, which means they don’t develop a ...