Could anything be better than chilling by the sky-blue waters of Belize, with servants doing your grunt work? Not for the longfin damselfish, who has turned the planktonic mysid shrimp into a virtual farmhand. The tiny shrimp have been trained to help the damselfish fertilize the algae farms that make up its diet, according to … Read more
Fish fingers anyone? Nail salon notorious for its bizarre designs is slammed for using SHRIMP heads in its latest manicure Russian-based Nail Sunny has more than 2.2 million followers on Instagram Prides itself on pushing boundaries with strange manicures Came under attack for the ‘disgusting’ and ‘disrespectful’ crustacean design Previously caused a stir with inch-long talons … Read more
A type of shrimp with five eyes that swam the oceans of Earth half a billion years ago may be the ‘missing link’ in the evolution of arthropods, scientists claim. Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered the three inch long creature, that dates back 520 million years, in a rock formation in Yunnan … Read more
A coating to make body armour impervious to bullets, lasers, microbes and even poison gas is being developed in the US from the same material as shrimp shells. Chitin is a robust natural material which forms the shells of crustaceans, protects butterfly wings and is found in mushroom cells. The material is a naturally occurring, and … Read more