Tag: crustaceans
A New Look at Natural Selection
If you are a pine tree, you need to have antifreeze in your needles if you are rooted beyond certain latitudes or elevations.
Do Invertebrates Have Feelings?
Just as vertebrates differ greatly in intelligence and sentience, invertebrates may differ greatly too.
Can Crabs Think? Can Lobsters Feel?
What about shrimp? Their brains turn out to have memory and learning centers, which has triggered an evolution squabble.
A Flea Circus of Small Animal Acrobats
Small animals amuse and amaze scientists who take a close look at them in action. Sometimes it requires a high-speed camera to analyze the trick.
Design in the First Animals
Scientists debate whether ctenophores are the earliest animals to appear in the Cambrian explosion. If so, they arrived with multiple tissues, a nervous system, and a digestive system.