Vial after vial, and label after label, Sofia Barretto Thomas dedicated her time and careful eye to sorting the thousands of amphipods donated by the late cave biologist John R. Holsinger Naomi ...

Though they play a crucial role in the ocean's ecosystem, including the food web, relatively little has been known about the tiny, shrimp-like animals known as benthic amphipod crustaceans. A group of ...

In the dark and cold of the months-long polar night, food resources are limited. Some groups of marine organisms in the polar regions overcome this challenge by going into a metabolic resting state in ...

The snapping claws of male amphipods--tiny, shrimplike crustaceans--are among the fastest and most energetic of any life on Earth. Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on February 8 ...

Subterranean amphipod crustaceans of the suborder Gammaridea have been sampled on a regular basis from the artesian well in San Marcos, Texas, since late 1973. Water in the artesian well comes from ...

At less than a quarter-inch long, the amphipod—a crustacean that looks a bit like a shrimp—lives a leisurely life, sifting through algae up and down the East Coast. Well, it’s superficially leisurely, ...

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 ...

Crustaceana, Vol. 86, No. 7/8, SPECIAL ISSUE: Proceedings of the Conference "New Frontiers for Monitoring European Biodiversity: The Role and Importance of Amphipod Crustaceans" Palermo, Italy, 27-29 ...

A newly discovered crayfish gets named after the NSA leaker and an amphipod after the singer of "Crocodile Rock." Now whose name are we going to use when we find a new species of crocodile? CNET ...