crustaceans


A breeding programme in the Yorkshire Dales has produced 300 rare white-clawed crayfish this year.

The first comprehensive inventory of the sea and land animals living in a polar region has been carried out by British and German scientists.

An otter has survived a "perilous" three-mile sea crossing to the Farne Islands for the first time, the National Trust says.

Two of Scotland's most unusually coloured lobsters are saved from the boiling pot.

Wildlife "invaders" which can threaten native species have not worked their way into rivers in the Isle of Man, a study shows.

Scientists believe the UK ranges of the plague-carrying non-native crayfish and voracious Chinese mitten crab are beginning to overlap.

Invasive alien species in the UK are having a profound impact on ecology and the economy, scientists say.

A seafood supplier is so impressed with the massive claw on a lobster, he donates it to an aquarium.

The great white shark may have awesome jaws but they are nothing compared with those of megalodon, its gigantic, whale-eating ancestor.

Experts on invertebrates fear the worst for food chains after figures show a decline in zooplankton.

Crabs collected by Charles Darwin as he travelled the world aboard HMS Beagle are given a new lease of life on the web.

Wildlife experts are trying to track down the carcass of a young fin whale which washed up on a Cornish beach.

Tiny channels in the Arctic ice support creatures that play a crucial role in climate-affected ecosystems.

Incidents of a seabird on St Kilda preying on another in darkness are intriguing researchers.

The discovery of a sea worm attack delays work to repair a public slipway on the Isle of Wight.

A lobster caught in Essex and measuring 3ft (0.9m) may have been alive for more than 50 years, it is thought.

A pink spiny lobster five times its normal size is found off the Cornish coast by a fishing boat.

A young minke whale stranded in Fraserburgh harbour for three days makes it back out to sea.

A diver describes how he was forced to wrestle a three-foot lobster into a string bag after it snapped at him underwater.

An extraordinarily rich array of marine life is discovered in the deep, dark waters around Antarctica.

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