Brendan I. Koerner

Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are submerged in water, minuscule crustaceans emerge; they can grow up to 2 inches long.

American Author

Susannah Cahalan

It's hard to imagine a time when lobster pots weren't part of a well-equipped kitchen, but America's love affair with the two-clawed crustaceans didn't start until the 1800s.

American Journalist

Josh Groban

Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean.

American Musician

Crustaceans are primarily found in aquatic environments, especially the ocean.

Habitat Specific

Though some crustaceans are eaten, others are not suitable for consumption due to size or toxicity.

Not Always Edible

Crustaceans can range from tiny like krill to large like lobsters and Japanese spider crabs.

Size Variation

 even the parts that aren't digested become part of the structure, we're getting incredible yield rates. Natural polymers, well ... I think that's what's most important, because these polymers have been tried and tested in our ecosystem for the last billion years, in everything from mushrooms to crustaceans.

Eben Bayer: Are...

 it will float. So, ice floats on water, so what? Well, let's consider a world without floating ice. The coldest part of the ocean would be the pitch-black ocean floor, once frozen, always frozen. Forget lobster rolls since crustaceans would lose their habitats,

Why does ice float in...

 just crustaceans most of which were were new to science huge numbers of rarely seen species are coming to light and scientists are gaining a new understanding of the dynamics of a microbial world on which all other life

Tiny New Sea Species...

 Scientists think that comparing these different inputs might help the gecko judge distance without having to move. And while they might have fooled you, mantises and other insects and crustaceans have “pseudopupils.”

Why do cats have...

 fish lay eggs amidst their sprawling, complex root systems. Symbiotic sponges and sea squirts protect their host trees from hungry woodboring crustaceans. Crabs, snails, and shrimp eat algae, mussels, barnacles,

The sharks that hunt in...

 but that happens too. Consider the mantis shrimp. Like other crustaceans, it molts as it grows, which leaves its soft body vulnerable to attack. But it’s still driven to protect its home against rivals.

The sneakiest tricksters...

 So, they leave seashells near the rubbish piles to help the homeless crustaceans. The crab normally winds its body into the spiral of a shell. It's far harder to grip a straight and slippery can.

Hermit Crabs Use Litter...

 no naka de Barcelona crustacean electrons in this rare night footage a giant salamander struggles back upstream after becoming trapped in a dam spillway when the banks of rivers are covered in

Giant Japanese...

 leave seashells near the rubbish piles to help the homeless crustaceans the crab normally want its body into the spiral of the shell it's far harder to grip a straight and slippery can

Top 5 Craftiest Animals!...

 For most of the year, the Gulf of Mexico is teeming with marine life, from tiny crustaceans to massive baleen whales.