John Dabiri isn’t an oceanographer. And he’s not a biologist. But for more than a decade, he’s been studying tiny shrimp swimming through water. It hasn’t always been easy. In 2014, he found his ...
Apparently, the ability to glow doesn’t make you special — if you’re a shrimp in the deep sea. Scientists have discovered bioluminescence is actually pretty common among deep-sea shrimp, with a new ...
Light is a primary driver of visual evolution in shrimp, according to new FIU research published this week in Nature Communications Biology. The deep sea is a dark place, with the only light coming ...
Caridean shrimp like this one carry pollen between male and female sea grass flowers. Image Credit: Enrique Dans via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0. Just when you thought nature couldn’t get any ...
In the deep sea off the coast of Iceland, a small, pink creature scuttles on the ocean floor. Nicolas J. Leclercq via Unsplash Deep below the freezing waves of the Atlantic Ocean surrounding Iceland, ...