What's in your pockets?

We have neither our hands, a knife, a string, nor nothing in our pocketssssss. What do you have in yours?

Crustacean withdrawal?

We're nearly at the end of the month and that means that the crustaceal focus here will fade, even though it will be hard to let go. But if you find you're jonesing for a lobster, you should consider joining The Crustacean Society. I know that my life won't be the same now that I can read the Journal of Crustacean Biology regularly. But even better is the biannual society newsletter, the Ecdysiast!

Remember when I used to love you?

Labbits and lobsters...not meant to be I guess.

Of crime and lobsters

For the most pun-filled news story ever written, see this piece from the Baltimore Sun.

The owner of Real Fish and Lobster, a seafood eatery in Orlando, has to be steamed after a burglar broke into the restaurant recently and stole 70 live lobsters and other assorted seafood valued at about $2,000.

LOLcrabs

What's orange, crawls sideways, and has eight tires?

I never thought I'd ever read something in a magazine devoted to SUVs but I came across an article for an all-terrain vehicle called "The Crustacean" so just had to show it!

Prawn vision

OK, so the papers call it "shrimp" vision but one of the researchers is an Australian who I interviewed a number of times about ten years ago and he calls them prawns, just like I do. Great bit about this is that the mantis shrimp is the only known animal that can see circularly polarized light. But really, the reason to read the stories is for the pretty pics like these.