Fossilized dinosaur feces are challenging some basic assumptions about dinosaur eating habits. Hadrosaurs, a kind of duck-billed dinosaur, are among the most common herbivores of the Cretaceous period ...

Crustaceans, a small but mighty animal classification group of invertebrates, can be found scuttling across the ocean floor, scavenging for their next snack. Lobster, shrimp, crab, and crayfish, all ...

The team utilized computer models to understand how a four-eyed crustacean sees in the deep ocean’s twilight zone Jack Tamisiea Some of the strangest eyes on the planet belong to Phronima amphipods, a ...

The crucial role of insects in the pollination of flowering plants is well known, but algal fertilization assisted by marine animals was hitherto deemed non-existent. A team has now discovered that ...

A tiny crustacean darted through the water after its next meal more than 500 million years ago. And, based on fossils of the animal, it probably was able to see the movement of this tasty morsel ...

England is proposing a unique, new animal welfare plan that protects one animal in particular: the humble lobster. The proposal is actually part of the government’s Animal Welfare Strategy for England ...

When it comes to reproduction, one type of red algae gets by with a little help from its friends: small sea crustaceans that transport sex cells between male and female algae, like pollen-laden bees ...

A scientific study reveals how tiny water fleas detect chemical signals from predators and adapt their bodies to survive.

Scientists have found the oldest sample of animal sperm, concealed in a 100 million-year-old piece of amber. Paleontologists discovered the sample in the reproductive tract of an ancient female ...

New research has led to the discovery of world's oldest animal sperm inside a tiny crustacean trapped in amber around 100 million years ago in Myanmar. An international collaboration between ...