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  1. #Crustaceans at Elberry Cove included European Edible Crab (Cancer pagurus), Rockpool Prawn (Palaemon elegans) & Northern Acorn Barnacle (Semibalanus balanoides). Also a lovely Snakelocks Anemone (Anemonia viridis). #UKWildlife #UKNature #MarineLife #crustacean #crab #nature #wildlife #crabs #invert

  2. Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar & #invertefest &#crustmas print made for #InsertAnInvert2024 🦀 Time after time shrimp like crustaceans have evolved crablike forms (through a process called carcinization) and do a good job of pretending to be crabs, but this odd looking fellow is the real deal, a true crab. My red frog crab (Ranina ranina), also known as a spanner crab or Huỳnh Đế crab, is … 🧵

    #linocut #printmaking #crustacean #crab #frogCrab #spannerCrab #Ranina #wildlifeArt #MastoArt

  3. #NewSpecies of ocean predator in the Atacama Trench
    phys.org/news/2024-12-ocean-pr #DeepSea

    A new large predator (#Amphipoda) hidden at hadal depths of the #AtacamaTrench: Johanna Weston et al. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

    "Characterized by darkness and intense pressure, the ocean's #HadalZone seems uninhabitable, yet dozens of unique organisms call it home... A new study highlights one of those species... This #crustacean is the first large, active predatory #amphipod from these extreme depths"

  4. Swimming #crustacean eats unlikely food source in the deep ocean phys.org/news/2024-09-crustace

    A #DeepSea isopod that consumes #Sargassum sinking from the #ocean’s surface royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

    "Using the submersible #Alvin, scientists encountered this isopod swimming 3.7 miles deep... Surprisingly, these #isopods can be seen carrying something more common on the ocean's surface: large pieces of Sargassum #algae. At the surface, Sargassum grows using photosynthesis, forming floating forests"

  5. The final #printerSolstice prompt is warm colours, so I made an animal in hues of orange and red. My hand-printed red frog crab (Ranina ranina), also known as a spanner crab or Huỳnh Đế crab, is hand-printed on Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. This crab is found in tropical and sub-tropical waters offshore Australia, the Philippines, Vietnam, the east coast of Africa, 🧵1/n

    #linocut #printmaking #printerSolstice2024 #crustacean #crab #frogCrab #spannerCrab #Ranina #wildlifeArt #MastoArt