A tiny , translucent water flea that can reproduce without sex and lives in ponds and lakes has more genes than any other creature , said scientists who have sequenced the crustacean 's genome .
The sand hopper -- a tiny , nocturnal beach crustacean native to new zealand -- is shown in its natural glory in this winner from the 2008 small world photomicrography competition .
As he describes in n aturwissenschaften , he and his colleagues have found that a small marine crustacean called crassicorophium bonellii produces a material which has the adhesive characteristics of barnacle glue and the structural properties of spider-silk fibres .
Staring out of your screen is the eye of a water flea , a largely transparent crustacean that can reach half an inch in length .
屏幕上凝望着你的是水蚤的眼睛,水蚤是一个足有半英尺长的巨大透明甲壳纲动物。
And overfishing of krill , a tiny crustacean that other marine life feed on , threatens the whole eco-system of the region .
比如一种小型甲壳纲动物磷虾,很多海洋动物以它为食,当遭到过度捕捞时,就会威胁整个地区的生态系统。
1 / 8 Like an ancient gold treasure , this tiny copepod crustacean was brought up from the atlantic abyss earlier this year
1/8就像一个古老的黄金宝藏,这个小小的桡足甲壳动物今年早些时候从大西洋海底深处采集到的。
See also : creepy crustacean hauled from ocean depths
看图:在海底深处捕获的令人毛骨悚然的甲壳类动物
What ammonites-or , at least , some of them-ate became clear earlier this year when an x-ray showed a small crustacean in the jaws of a species called baculites .