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Researchers have provided new insights into the evolutionary origin of sideways walking in crabs. Their study, published today as a Reviewed Preprint in eLife, presents the largest comparative dataset ...

The toxins were first detected in the mucus coating a bootlace worm species that holds the record as the world’s longest animal, says Ulf Göransson, a pharmacognosist at Uppsala University in Sweden.

From toxic killers to giant deep-sea monsters, the ocean is home to some truly bizarre crustaceans – but not all of them are what they seem. Some of its members have evolved terrifying survival ...

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