Giant isopods look like monstrously sized woodlice and can live in the deep sea, beyond the reach of daylight. But how much do we really know about the lives of these crustaceans? Despite their ...

The speaker, Robert Elwood, based his assertions on a series of experiments in which crabs were subjected to electric shocks. Many have argued that crustaceans do not feel pain, claiming the animals’ ...

Biological immortality is exceptionally rare. Despite numerous memes that suggest lobsters can live forever, these crustaceans are bound to a mortal existence, just like us. Discover how long lobsters ...

And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on Earth, Japanese spider crabs are the largest, spanning up to 12.5 feet from the tip of one front claw to the other. They’re also one ...

Drawing on over 300 scientific studies, we have evaluated the evidence of sentience in two groups of invertebrate animals: the cephalopod molluscs or, for short, cephalopods (including octopods, squid ...