Floating around in the open ocean, shrimp larvae are alone and exposed. Like jellyfish and other other drifters, their best bet for survival is to be as inconspicuous as possible. Transparent bodies ...

First identified in 1899, y-larvae have been one of the greatest zoological mysteries for over a century. No one has ever found an adult of these puzzling crustaceans, despite the plethora of these ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Facetotectans are microscopic crustacean larvae that have never been seen as adults. Only the larval and juvenile phases of these creatures are known ...

Ontogenetic changes in salinity tolerance are a key factor to understand not only larval behavior, but also recruitment success in many decapod crustaceans. The invasive shrimp Palaemon macrodactylus ...

For more than 100 years, biologists have puzzled over the identity of a tiny, mysterious marine organism known only as y-larvae. Smaller than the period at the end of this sentence, the shrimp-like ...

Adult mantis shrimp pack an explosive punch that can split water, but no crustacean emerges fully formed. Minute larvae can undergo six or seven transformations before emerging as fully developed ...