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Tag: crabs

Playing dress-up with crabs
Biology

Playing dress-up with crabs

Some crabs enjoy attaching material to their carapaces to decorate themselves – what are the mechanisms at play?
August 23, 2022 Valeria Contreras
Follow the breadcrumbs: Sponges show how some animals clean up viruses
Biology

Follow the breadcrumbs: Sponges show how some animals clean up viruses

These days, hunkered down in our homes (if we are lucky) and washing our hands till they’re raw, it can…
April 1, 2020April 2, 2020 Kristin Huizenga
You are what you eat: Microplastics travel from food to the brain
Plastic Pollution

You are what you eat: Microplastics travel from food to the brain

Oceans are full of microplastics. These tiny plastic particles end up in the stomach of marine animals. Now, scientists have…
December 17, 2019December 17, 2019 Anastasia Yandulskaya
Marine Halloween: Crabs Dress Up To Trick-or-Treat
Biology

Marine Halloween: Crabs Dress Up To Trick-or-Treat

Dressing up is a Halloween tradition. In the ocean, some animals 'dress up' to trick their predators or go unnoticed…
October 31, 2017October 31, 2017 Megan Chen
Behavior Biology deep sea

Hide-and-Go-Seek in the Deep Sea

In the deep sea off the coast of Antartica, sea urchins are getting crafty to avoid predation from king crabs.…
August 18, 2016 Derrick Alcott
Climate Change Ecology

A new king (crab) of the Antarctic

Temperatures are increasing at the poles (and worldwide) and shifting the balance of predator-prey interactions. Predatory king crabs are moving…
December 2, 2015 Sarah Giltz
Ecology

Two Crabs and an Alga- a story of protection and evolution.

Tiny mud crabs try to escape big blue crab predators but without the help of evolution to guide shelter choices…
January 8, 2015January 8, 2015 Sarah Giltz
Coral Ecology

Get crabby! A coral’s guide to self-defense

Crabs in the genus Trapezia are not only good housekeepers, clearing sediment off host corals, but they are also effective…
October 20, 2014October 22, 2014 Megan Chen

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