Somewhere on the dark, silty floor of the central Pacific, more than four kilometers below the surface, a tiny crustacean was living a life so unlike anything previously cataloged that scientists had ...

The D.C. Council is considering a bill that would designate the endangered Hay’s Spring amphipod the official amphipod of Washington, D.C. If the legislation passes, D.C. will become the first “state ...

What if some of the most important clues about marine biodiversity were already collected but never fully shared? That's the question that motivated a study, published in Biodiversity Data Journal. It ...

Plans for a proposed light-rail Purple Line, which would connect D.C. to the Maryland suburbs could be delayed because of an unlikely reason: A rare, endangered shrimplike crustacean. According to the ...

Thought to lurk underground in the dark, honeycomb-like recesses between two Edwards Aquifer springs in central Texas, the elusive Peck's cave amphipod depends on steady spring flows and clean water ...

The glacial relict amphipod Gammaracanthus lacustris only occurs in deep and cold waters. A collaborative study by University of Jyväskylä and University of Eastern Finland produced new information on ...