Carcinization is a captivating type of convergent evolution where five different groups of crustaceans have separately evolved to have crab-like body structures. Evolutionary ...

Some birds boast the world’s most acute eyesight, and there is one crustacean that takes colour vision to the extreme, but some would argue that the best eyes in the animal kingdom belong to the ...

What makes these crustaceans unique ... shrimp arguably have the most complex and advanced vision system in the animal kingdom. Human eyes rely on three types of photoreceptors to detect color ...

But in the animal kingdom, a lot of creatures straddle it ... The phenomenon has been documented in birds, crustaceans—and butterflies. Evolutionary biologist Josh Jahner explains “what ...