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 ...

A new species of amphipod with a unique panda pattern was found in the intertidal zone of the Japanese coast. The discovery of the Melita panda highlights the importance of studying species taxonomy, ...

This new species is an amphipod–a type of shrimp-like crustacean that is found in both freshwater and saltwater environments around the world. It was discovered in the Atacama Trench off the coast of ...

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 ...

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 ...