The larval crabs will live on ocean plankton, molting through several stages before acquiring a shell of their own and coming back to land. Hermit crabs don’t breed well in captivity ...

The larval stage is the “black box” of fisheries science: Fertilized eggs go in, and young fish come out—but what happens inside remains sketchy. The larval fish are so small and fragile ...

It is well known that members of the family Potamonidse hatch as forms very like the parent, the truly larval stages taking place within the egg. In South Australia we find other crabs with the ...