#crustaceans — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #crustaceans, aggregated by home.social.
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Giant, deep-sea roly-polies steal a #gene to endure starvation
The football-sized #crustaceans feast when they can, then slow their #metabolism to a crawl
These #Isopods are armored, oblong crustaceans. Long ago, the creatures stole a gene from a bacterium and welded it into their own set of DNA. This may help the crustaceans tolerate extremely long periods without food in the frigid, abyssal desert.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/big-deep-roly-polies-endure-starvation
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💁🏻♀️ 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
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦐🚀 Scientists at the #Okayama University of #Science used a specialized high-speed spinning #machine to simulate weightlessness for kuruma shrimp and sea monkeys.
The team observed that while the larger #shrimp needed mesh netting to steady themselves, the smaller brine shrimp thrived and grew normally over several days. The #research provides a look at how #future #astronauts might raise #aquaculture setups on the #Moon.
#space #microgravity #science #biology #astronomy #crustaceans
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Crabs invade garden shed… 50 miles from the sea https://www.allforgardening.com/1854264/crabs-invade-garden-shed-50-miles-from-the-sea/ #BBCThreeCountiesRadio #bedfordshire #Biggleswade #crustaceans #garden #HitchinStreet #MichaelBirch #RichardLawrence
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🏛️🟢 When the #LincolnMemorial #ReflectingPool turned green with #algae after a $15 million renovation, officials reached for #chemicals and expensive #technology.
But a #freshwater ecologist explains that #nature offers cheaper, longer lasting solutions. Tiny #crustaceans called #Daphnia and rooted aquatic #plants can control algae by consuming it and absorbing nutrients before blooms form.
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#Fouling means that #sessileanimals as #crustaceans or #mussels attach themselves to non-living #underwatersurfaces as #shiphulls. According to Capt. Raghu Sharma (2026), this particularly affects ships beyond the #StraitofHormuz due to #warmwaters and #highsalinity. It increases #hydrodynamicdrag leading to higher #fuelconsumption (M. Tadros et al. 2022).
©#StefanFWirthReferences
https://thedeepdraft.com/2026/06/08/the-barnacle-problem-waiting-behind-hormuz/https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10121891
https://ecoevo.social/@AquaClaire/116734274878226843
Illustrations
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Here's a lobster boi! Drawing those big claws was really fun (but also quite difficult to get right with perspective)
#art #mastoart #drawabox #traditionalart #fediart #mastoartist #creativetoots #ink #nature #pen #lobster #crustaceans #sealife @drawing #drawing #tiffart
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💁🏻♀️ 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
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🦐🦘 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
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Cruelty hidden in plain sight 🦞💔 👉 Watch "The Hidden Lives of Lobsters" at https://veganfta.com/resource-hub/the-hidden-lives-of-lobsters/ 🎨: ignadee (IG) #lobster #seafood #crustaceans
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Lobsters are amazing crustaceans who have been sadly exploited by humans for millennia, ignoring how remarkable and fascinating they are. 🦞 👉 Find out more: https://veganfta.com/blog/2026/02/25/lobsters-are-amazing-animals/ #lobster #marinebiology #crustaceans
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Learning how to draw shrimps. How do people keep track of all their legs??? (There's so many...)
That said they do look kinda cute haha
#shrimp #drawabox #drawing #art #nature #mastoart #fediart #creativetoots #ink #pen #traditionalart #crustaceans #sealife @drawing #tiffart #animals #mastoartist #tiffart
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2500 Years of Crabs-12 Civilizations
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European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas)
#Crab #SeaLife #ArtWithOpenSource #CCBYSA #Darktable #MarineLife #Decapoda #Decapods #Crustacea #Crustaceans #Crustacean #Arthropod #Arthropods #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
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Ah yes, the riveting saga of #isopods globe-trotting from #Madagascar to #Montenegro 🌍🦐. Who knew these unassuming #crustaceans had a more robust #travel itinerary than even the most pretentious Instagram influencer? If only booking a vacation were as simple as listing continents and calling it a "site" 🤦♂️.
https://isopod.site/ #adventure #HackerNews #ngated -
Sally Lightfoot crab (Grapsus grapsus)..Galápagos Islands, west coast Americas...its name is said to come from its ability to run in all four directions...those back ridges serve a purpose, helping reinforce the exoskeleton against crashing waves. #wildlife #nature #crustaceans #science #ecology #photo
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Male Fiddler Crab (genus Uca, Austruca or Tubuca). They have an unusual diet, they're detritivores. They use the small claw to scoop up mouthfuls of sediment, sift out the algae and microbes, and then spit the sand back out in little pellets. #wildlife #nature #biology #crustaceans #photo
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Do you know which species of crustaceans are taken from the wild, and how? 🦀 👉 Find out more: https://veganfta.com/blog/2026/03/29/how-crustaceans-are-caught-in-the-wild/ #crustaceans #marineanimals #seafood
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Lobsters and crabs should not be exploited in any way, but there are at least five ways that their exploitation during farming can be considered especially cruel. 🦞🦀 https://veganfta.com/blog/2026/03/17/5-examples-of-the-cruelty-of-lobster-and-crab-farming/ #lobsters #crabs #crustaceans
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🦀🛡️ In the #ChesapeakeBay, the biggest threat to a young blue crab isn't a hungry #fish – it's another blue crab.
A long-term study explains that while these #crustaceans are notoriously cannibalistic, juveniles have a better chance of surviving if they stick to the ultra-shallow waters of coastal estuaries where bigger #crabs can't easily reach them.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/cannibalism-blue-crabs/
#wildlife #marinebiology #science #ecology #nature #biology #underwater
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Illustration by Anton Seder, from Das Thier in der Dekorativen Kunst (1896).
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/727b2b83-b1f1-4d50-aafc-620fa1db6928
#lobsters #art-nouveau #beasts #sea-life #modernism #ornament #crustaceans #art #publicdomain
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One of the highlights of my day was when William Harland, a talented ecology undergrad here at #LincolnUniversityNZ, stopped by my office to show me his photos of temnocephalid flatworms. These distinctive squat tentacled flatworms live in colonies on NZ's freshwater crayfish, koura, and eat scraps left over when the koura feed. They apparently cause no bother to the koura.
William found these at Poolburn Reservoir in central Otago.
Amazing!
The photo is CC-BY William Harland: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/341041723
Here are more photos of these crazy flatworms on #iNaturalistNZ: https://inaturalist.nz/observations?verifiable=true&taxon_id=868829&place_id=6803&preferred_place_id=6803#invertebrates #flatworms #NaturalHistory #NZ #Freshwater #crayfish #crustaceans #nature #crayfish
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Lobsters are amazing crustaceans who have been sadly exploited by humans for millennia, ignoring how remarkable and fascinating they are. 🦞 👉 Learn more: https://veganfta.com/blog/2026/02/25/lobsters-are-amazing-animals/ #lobster #crustaceans #animal
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Woodlouse are #Crustaceans in the #Order Isopoda. They are NOT insects! With slightly under forty species here; it's worth learning to identify species. Common Pill Woodlouse (Armadillidium vulgare) seen in #Brighton by @[email protected] has both grey and orange colour forms. #brightonwildlife
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6hzglooptrt5bsqy2oziokoz/post/3mf6em7agms2z -
Time for giant white #crustaceans at the bottom of the #ocean 🌊 https://www.earth.com/news/alicella-gigantea-giant-crustaceans-amphipod-inhabit-most-deep-sea-floor/ #wildlife