Decapod crustaceans represent one of the most diverse and ecologically significant groups of marine and freshwater organisms. Their evolutionary history, documented by an abundant fossil record, ...
Evolution keeps making crabs. In fact, it's happened so often that there's a special scientific term for an organism turning crab-like:... Evolution keeps making crabs. We asked a scientist why ...
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Molecular hope: Tiny ocean crustaceans use genetic and epigenetic tools to weather climate change
In a first-of-its-kind experiment tracing evolution across 25 generations, scientists have discovered that marine copepods—the tiny crustaceans at the heart of the ocean food web—rely on a largely ...
Carcinization is a captivating type of convergent evolution where five different groups of crustaceans have separately evolved to have crab-like body structures. Evolutionary paleobiologist Matthew ...
The film discusses the diverse group of animals known as arthropods, which includes over a million species, making them the most successful group of animals in terms of habitat variety and species ...
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