A barnacle spends most of its life standing on its head and waving its legs! When a baby barnacle hatches out of its egg it has one eye and twelve legs. For several weeks it swims about in the...
Some surprising shrimp
The bandit lay waiting. He wasn't very big, but he had a pistol cocked and ready! Suddenly, a fish appeared, swimming slowly past the bandit's hiding place. The bandit's pistol went off with a loud...
All kinds of crabs
Someone who is grouchy is often called a \"crab." That doesn't seem fair to the real crabs. There's no reason to think that any of them are grouchy! In fact, they're a big family with many odd and...
The gawky lobster
Many people think that lobsters are bright red. That's because they've only seen cooked lobsters. Cooking turns them red. But live lobsters are greenish, or bluish, or brownish. A lobster is a...
Crustaceans
Beetles and other many-legged creatures belong to a huge \"family" of animals we call arthropods thruh pahdz). All arthropods have a jointed body, a shell, and three or more pairs of legs. Though...
