#crustaceans — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🛸🌊 A #NOAA #ROV explores abyssal plains near the #CookIslands in the #SouthPacific, mapping the deep seafloor and #water column with sensors while live streaming nearly daily through August 13. Divers have already spotted carnivorous #sponges that capture small #crustaceans, a surprising find for habitats once thought sparse.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/deep-sea-exploration-livestream-pacific/

#deepsea #pacific #marinebiology #oceanography #science #exploration #conservation #maps #abyssal #biology

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦐🦘 Roly polies are terrestrial #crustaceans that evolved from marine-dwelling ancestors.

They share a specific trait with #kangaroos because both carry their young in a brood pouch. Female pill bugs carry their #eggs and newly-hatched young in a special pouch called a marsupium.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/roly-poly-pillbug-marsupium-video

#animals #babies #birth #bugs #detritivores #mating #nature #parenting #insects #marsupials #isopods #evolution #science #wildlife #entomology #zoology #ecosystem #tksst #video

🦐🦘 Roly polies are terrestrial #crustaceans that evolved from marine-dwelling ancestors.

They share a specific trait with #kangaroos because both carry their young in a brood pouch. Female pill bugs carry their #eggs and newly-hatched young in a special pouch called a marsupium.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/roly-poly-pillbug-marsupium-video

#animals #babies #birth #bugs #detritivores #mating #nature #parenting #insects #marsupials #isopods #evolution #science #wildlife #entomology #zoology #ecosystem #tksst #video

Saint Piran's Hermit Crab (Clibanarius erythropus) in a Horn Shell (Cerithium vulgatum)

#HermitCrab #CCBYSA #MarineLife #Sealife #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #Shell #Shells #Gastropod #Gastropoda #Mollusc #Molluscs #Mollusca #HermitCrabs #Crab #Crabs #Decapoda #Crustacea #Crustacean #Crustaceans #Animals #Animal #AnimalPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography

Fossil of ancient crustacean gathering reveals new insights into their lives
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2025/march/fossil-ancient-crustacean-gathering-reveals-new-insights-into-their-lives.html

Gregarious behaviour in #Carboniferous cyclidan #crustaceans https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0734

"With legs emerging from underneath rounded shells, #cyclidans looked not unlike an underwater beetle. Earliest species were a few mm in size and form #fossils that look like a tiny bunch of grapes. Over millions of years they evolved larger species, and by the #Triassic they were about as wide as a human hand"

“#Nature has so far balanced our abuse. This is coming to an end,” - #JohanRockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for #ClimateImpact Research.

#Trees and #land absorbed almost no #CO2 last year. Is nature’s #CarbonSink failing?

The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into #ClimateModels – and could rapidly accelerate #GlobalHeating

by Patrick Greenfield, October 14, 2024

"It begins each day at nightfall. As the light disappears, billions of #zooplankton, #crustaceans and other marine organisms rise to the ocean surface to feed on microscopic #algae, returning to the depths at sunrise. The waste from this frenzy – Earth’s largest migration of creatures – sinks to the #ocean floor, removing millions of tonnes of #carbon from the atmosphere each year.

"This activity is one of thousands of natural processes that regulate the Earth’s climate. Together, the planet’s oceans, forests, soils and other natural carbon sinks absorb about half of all #HumanEmissions.

"But as the Earth heats up, scientists are increasingly concerned that those crucial processes are breaking down.

"In 2023, the hottest year ever recorded, preliminary findings by an international team of researchers show the amount of carbon absorbed by land has temporarily collapsed. The final result was that #forest, plants and soil – as a net category – absorbed almost no carbon.

"There are warning signs at sea, too. #Greenland’s Glaciers and #ArcticIceSheets are melting faster than expected, which is disrupting the #GulfStream ocean current and slows the rate at which oceans absorb carbon. For the algae-eating zooplankton, melting sea ice is exposing them to more sunlight – a shift scientists say could keep them in the depths for longer, disrupting the vertical migration that stores carbon on the ocean floor."

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/14/nature-carbon-sink-collapse-global-heating-models-emissions-targets-evidence-aoe

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #Exctinction #GlobalWarming

#LeptucaPugilator, the #AtlanticSandFiddlerCrab; #BrevardCounty, #Florida (24 May 2019). They're not usually this cooperative for the camera. Heh.

More eco-photography at http://floridensis.com. #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Leptuca #Crabs #Crustaceans #FiddlerCrab

@anamckellar Times editorial: #JenniRussell drew attention to a great #EnvironmentalCatastrophe: a mass #extinction of #MarineLife in the #NorthSea off #Teesside. A 30 mile section of coast has been turned into a #MarineDesert. #Fishermen report that catches of lobster, crab & other #crustaceans have collapsed. Response secretive & deeply unsatisfactory; #PublicConfidence at stake. Govt boasting of #MarineProtectedAreas while Britain's domestic waters among most #polluted in Europe.