#crustaceans

Study explores effects of climatic changes on Christmas Island's red crabs https://phys.org/news/2025-03-explores-effects-climatic-christmas-island.html #MarineLife #MarineBiology #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #Crustaceans #Crustacea

Even the lobsters have had enough of the US and moving to Canada.

https://www.wmtw.com/article/lobster-catch-drops-maine-move-to-canada-colder-water/63974679

#Canada #US #Lobsters #Animals #Crustaceans

Warty Crab (Eriphia verrucosa)

#WartyCrab #Crab #ArtWithOpenSource #CCBYSA #MarineLife #Sealife #Darktable #Crabs #Crustacean #Crustaceans #Crustacea #Animals #Animal #AnimalPhotography #WildlifePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography

Brickwork Woodlouse (Porcellio spinicornis)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brickwork_Woodlouse_(Porcellio_spinicornis)_-_B%C3%A6rum,_Norway_2021-09-16.jpg

#Woodlouse #Crustacean #Isopod #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Crustaceans #Crustacea #Isopods #Isopoda #Woodlice #Animal #Animals #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography

From 02 Jan: Do crabs feel pain? - Crabs are often boiled alive prior to being eaten. The logic has been that crabs do not feel pa... https://www.livescience.com/animals/crustaceans/do-crabs-feel-pain #animals #crustaceans

#Crustmas :
Nose Ornament with #Shrimp
Moche, Peru, 500-800CE
Gold, silver, stone
12.4 x 19.1 x 0.3 cm
Met 1979.206.1236
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/313411
“probably the freshwater shrimp Cryphiops caementarius, which can grow to ~ 7 in. long and is still found in the rivers of Peru.”
#PeruvianArt #IndigenousArt #Crustaceans

@dyckron

Crabs and lobsters can feel pain!

Before eating them, #people should also consider that many #crabs & #lobsters are significantly older than they are.

#Crabzilla was born around 1970
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250168/Biggest-crab-seen-Britain.html

&

#George was 140 years old at the time of his release!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_(lobster)

#Lobster #govegan #govegetarian #animalrights #food #cooking #crab #animals #seafood #crustaceans

This constant rewriting and reshuffling clades around is why no one likes taxonomists!
(joke, we love you, please keep on doing what you do we need good #Taxonomy )
An important reorganization of Pancrustacea (#crustaceans, #insects & friends) with some interesting #evolutionary implications.
This is going to be one of these papers that will lead to a lot of "hum... actually" to students on what they learned in secondary school (as well as old graduates).
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/40/8/msad175/7239260?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=mbe&utm_medium=email&login=false

Absolutely massive, lobster-like signal crayfish in the river Misbourne. These species were brought to the UK from North America to be farmed, but have escaped into the wild & infiltrated some of the UK’s wild rivers, where they are pushing out the smaller native species from their habitats.

#wildlife #crayfish #buckinghamshire #ukrivers #crustaceans #crustacean #conservation #chilternhills

“#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

You'd have thought after spending days in the changing room they'd pick a different outfit to the previous one.

#crayfish #aquarium #crustaceans

#Competition over millions of years preserves #genetic #diversity of three #crustaceans.

#host_parasite #coevolution #arms_race #Red_Queen

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-competition-millions-years-genetic-diversity.html

A Blue Crab in shallow water near Briggs Beach in Little Compton, RI.

#crustaceans #wildlife #nature #littlecompton #rhodeisland #wildrhodeisland #naturalrhodeisland #rhodeislandwildlife

There were also #crabs ! Dozens and dozens of crabs! #WildlifePhotography #crustaceans #Japan

@futurebird If you're into crustacean mythology, I wrote something bizarrely relevant for Flash Fiction Month just under a year ago!
#FlashFictionMonth #crustaceans #mythology https://damonwakes.wordpress.com/2023/07/06/thus-eats-the-unfortunate-will-become-a-friend-to-those-who-are-we/

Rockpool Prawn (Palaemon elegans)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rockpool_Prawn_(Palaemon_elegans)_-_B%C3%A6rum,_Norway_2021-06-01_(01).jpg

#Shrimp #Prawn #Crustacean #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Crustaceans #Crustacea #Arthropod #Arthropods #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography

Next block getting carved is a true

Not one of those false crabs. There’s a process called carcinization where crustaceans keep evolving a crab-like form again and again. So there’s many animals you might swear were crabs, called the such-and-such crab, which aren’t technically crabs. But this one is the real deal. Ranina ranina, the frog crab or spanner crab.

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #wip #crab #frogCrab #spannerCrab #ranina #crustaceans #invertebrates #MastoArt

Common Shiny Woodlouse (Oniscus asellus)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Common_Shiny_Woodlouse_(Oniscus_asellus)_-_B%C3%A6rum,_Norway_2021-05-04.jpg

#WoodLouse #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #WoodLice #Crustaceans #Crustacean #Isopods #CCBYSA #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography

Did you know that insect wings evolved from the gills of an ancestral crustacean? Scientists have found that two genes that are important for wing development in insects are also expressed in the gills of a branchiopod crustacean. This supports the idea that wings are modified gills that moved to the back of the insect body. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/how-insect-wings-evolved-legs-ancestral-crustacean #insectwings #crustaceans #evolution