News tagged with crabs
A new invading sea crab reaches the Ebro Delta
Originally endemic to the Atlantic Coast of North America, over the past 30 years Dyspanopeus sayi has been involuntarily introduced in the UK, France, the Netherlands, the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea. A ...
May 25, 2012 |
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Crabs will fake it to avoid a fight, research finds
Dr Robbie Wilson, Head of the Performance Lab at the University of Queensland, where this study was conducted, said the research identified more than just some crabby behaviour.
May 16, 2012 |
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New purple crab species found in Philippines
Four new species of freshwater crab, bright purple in colour, have been discovered in the biologically diverse but ecologically-threatened Philippines, the man who found them said Saturday.
Apr 22, 2012 |
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Scientists work up a crab-powered computer
(Phys.org) -- A team of scientists from Japan and England have hit the high mark in exploring and testing unconventional forms of computation. They have built and tested a computer using crabs. This is a computer ...
Apr 14, 2012 |
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Preventing home invasions means fighting side-by-side for coral-dwelling crabs and shrimp
As any comic book lover knows, when superheroes band together the bad guys fall harder. The strength that comes in numbers is greater than the sum of its parts.
Mar 30, 2012 |
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Powerhouse in the Crab Nebula
MAGIC telescopes measure the highest-energy gamma rays from a pulsar to date, calling theory into question.
Mar 29, 2012 |
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Crabs, insects and spiders vulnerable to oil spill, but also resilient
Crabs, insects and spiders living in coastal salt marshes affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster were damaged by the massive oil spill but were able to recover within a year if their host plants remained ...
Mar 07, 2012 |
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Researchers suggest high energy emissions from Crab Nebula come from wind
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of physicists studying the Crab Nebula have offered a new theory to explain its extraordinarily high energy emissions that have intrigued space scientists for years. ...
Feb 16, 2012 |
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Capturing an octopus-eye view of the Great Barrier Reef
A specialized camera that allows scientists to see as reef-dwelling animals do has been built by a team of researchers at the University of Bristol. The team will travel to Lizard Island off the coast of Queensland this year ...
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Horseshoe crabs are one of nature's great survivors
It may look like something out of a science fiction movie, but the horseshoe crab is definitely real. In fact it is one of nature’s great survivors, lasting through 3 of the Earth’s major extinction ...
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Mesoparapylocheles michaeljacksoni: Fossil hermit crab named after Michael Jackson
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Kent State University researcher was part of an international team of paleontologists that recently made a significant discovery in northern Spain. The group discovered a new family, genus ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Scientists describe new species of crab that "farms" methane vents
A species of crab found a thousand feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean near Costa Rica lives off the bacteria on its claws – bacteria that it fertilizes by waving them in methane and sulfide released from the ...
Dec 03, 2011 |
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Japanese researchers turn a crab shell transparent
A group of researchers working out of Kyoto University in Japan have successfully transformed a normal crab into one that is transparent. As they describe in their paper published in the British Royal Society ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Friend and foe? How crabs avoid getting eaten
Despite their simple compound eyes crabs have evolved a smart way to tell the difference between friend and foe, new scientific research has revealed.
Nov 28, 2011 |
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Catch limits debated for 'most important fish in sea'
A big fight is brewing over a little fish - a fish that no one wants to eat but that many regard as the most important in the sea.
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Crab
True crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (Greek: βραχύς / brachys = short, οὐρά / οura = tail), or where the reduced abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax. Many other animals with similar names – such as hermit crabs, king crabs, porcelain crabs, horseshoe crabs and crab lice – are not true crabs.
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