It captured two Lophoura szidati copepods latched onto a rattail fish's head. Long egg sacs behind them gave the parasites a pigtailed look. These copepods, part of the Sphyriidae family ...

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Behold, the latest in deep-sea fashion: An unfortunate fish sporting parasitic copepods as pigtails. An international team of scientists affiliated with the Schmidt Ocean Institute and the Woods ...

Scientists are interested in a species of shrimp capable of landing surprisingly powerful punches without hurting themselves. The peacock mantis shrimp is named for its colorful carapace and lives ...

But there are also cockroaches that ride ants, copepods that ride jellyfish, fairy shrimp that ride trout, water fleas that ride wild boar, millipedes that ride birds, sea anemones that ride crabs ...

The algae blooms and dies, falling to the bottom, where it fertilizes fine sediments perfect for growing amphipods. Those are tiny, fat-rich crustaceans that whales filter through their baleen ...

These parasites, Lophoura szidati copepods, looked like they had pigtails. They clung to the head of a rattail fish at 1,604 feet. The copepods burrowed into the fish to feed. Scientists were ...

It feeds on planktonic crustaceans, primarily copepods, the Channel Islands Harbor said. Get Los Angeles's latest local news on crime, entertainment, weather, schools, cost of living and more.

Two North Atlantic right whales, among the most at-risk marine mammals, were spotted swimming in the Bahamas on April 15, marking the first time the species has been seen in the nation’s waters.

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