Though they play a crucial role in the ocean's ecosystem, including the food web, relatively little has been known about the tiny, shrimp-like animals known as benthic amphipod crustaceans. A group of ...

Vial after vial, and label after label, Sofia Barretto Thomas dedicated her time and careful eye to sorting the thousands of amphipods donated by the late cave biologist John R. Holsinger Naomi ...

The snapping claws of male amphipods--tiny, shrimplike crustaceans--are among the fastest and most energetic of any life on Earth. Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on February 8 ...

At less than a quarter-inch long, the amphipod—a crustacean that looks a bit like a shrimp—lives a leisurely life, sifting through algae up and down the East Coast. Well, it’s superficially leisurely, ...

In the dark and cold of the months-long polar night, food resources are limited. Some groups of marine organisms in the polar regions overcome this challenge by going into a metabolic resting state in ...

Far beneath the wavetops, down into the dark ocean depths, a rarely seen crustacean makes its home. It's called Alicella gigantea, and it's the largest known species of amphipod, a shrimp-like species ...

Subterranean amphipod crustaceans of the suborder Gammaridea have been sampled on a regular basis from the artesian well in San Marcos, Texas, since late 1973. Water in the artesian well comes from ...

The team utilized computer models to understand how a four-eyed crustacean sees in the deep ocean’s twilight zone Jack Tamisiea Some of the strangest eyes on the planet belong to Phronima amphipods, a ...

Whale lice are “highly specialized amphipod crustaceans” that live on the skin of marine mammals like whales. Screengrab from the Noyo Center for Marine Science on Facebook Much about whales is a ...

Crustaceana, Vol. 86, No. 7/8, SPECIAL ISSUE: Proceedings of the Conference "New Frontiers for Monitoring European Biodiversity: The Role and Importance of Amphipod Crustaceans" Palermo, Italy, 27-29 ...