You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. What happens when a fish gobbles up a beautiful light-emitting sea creature? They get an unappealing ...

The postage-stamp sized sample of amber contained 39 half-millimeter-long crustaceans called ostracods, including 31 of a new species. Image by He Wang and Xiangdong Zhao Scientists have identified ...

Small bivalved crustacean ostracods are the most abundant fossil arthropods since the Ordovician and play an important role in paleoenvironmental reconstruction and evolutionary biology. The vast ...

Some insects and sea creatures produce sperm that is up to 10 times bigger than they are. Now scientists have used an innovative new x-ray technology to show how this bizarre situation evolved over ...