The clip does not show a symbiotic, or mutually beneficial, relationship between a crab and a flatworm. A video shared to social media claims to show a black, blob-like organism known as a marine ...

Humans don’t need to blast off into space to find some truly alien-looking wonders. The deepest depths of our ocean are like ...

Two new porcelain crab species have been described in the ZooKeys journal by scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and the Institut fur Tierokologie und Spezielle Zoologie ...

Scientists have identified two new marine species off Western Australia: a small, glowing West Australian Lanternshark and a ...

The new species of hermit crab-associated sea anemone, Paracalliactis tsukisome, secretes and constructs a unique shell-like structure known as a carcinoecium, which expands the host hermit crab’s ...

Researchers from Kumamoto University and collaborating institutions have discovered a new species of deep-sea sea anemone ...

The structure and function of the reproductive tracts of the spider crab Inachus phalangium were investigated, focusing on sperm transfer, sperm storage in the seminal receptacles, and spawning. Males ...

What do some of our public officials have in common with nature? In the animal and plant kingdoms, there are numerous symbiotic relationships. They can be found in all societies and different walks of ...

California is close to having two new state symbols — a famous slug and an expensive crab. About the banana slug: You can find the slugs in coastal lowlands, where they have a symbiotic relationship ...

Although initially mistaken for Petrolisthes tonsorius in the 1970s, the uncommon colors and atypical habitat of Petrolisthes virgilius led the scientists to corroborate through genetic analyses that ...

Two new symbiotic porcelain crab species have been described. One of them, from the South China Sea of Vietnam, inhabits the compact tube-like shelters built by the polychaete worm with other ...