Biologists are monitoring an Australian crayfish that surprisingly showed up in Texas, fearing it could threaten local ...

A branching coral under pressure from heat and physical damage appears to gain crucial support from a particular ...

Many have argued that crustaceans do not feel pain, claiming the animals’ responses to stimuli like electric shocks are merely automatic. In one set of experiments, Elwood and a colleague allowed ...

But how much do we really know about the lives of these crustaceans? Despite their intriguing looks and substantial size, relatively little is known about giant isopods. We know where they live and ...

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 ...