HEAVILY-ARMOURED and pretty ugly, the lobster makes for an unlikely icon. But in Maine the crustacean appears on everything from T-shirts to key-rings. Lobster-boats even feature on the top of the ...

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[Drewtoby] loves making robots. His latest project is a 10-legged bot called the Decascrap, which makes use of only 3 servos! What we like most about this project is the leg mechanism [Drew] has ...

Drawing on over 300 scientific studies, we have evaluated the evidence of sentience in two groups of invertebrate animals: the cephalopod molluscs or, for short, cephalopods (including octopods, squid ...

A crab-like body plan has evolved at least five separate times among decapod crustaceans, a group that includes crabs, lobsters and shrimp. In fact, it's happened so often that there's a name for ...

The UK government has today confirmed that the scope of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill will be extended to all decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs. This move follows the findings of a ...

Some long-awaited villains from the world of Doc Nocturnal have arrived as the Decapod Gang has arrived. This crustacean-crime syndicate are ruthless aquatic gangsters and more specifically ...

The evening will be dedicated to the welfare and protection of decapod animals, with Dr Ben Sturgeon’s talk focusing on the ...