It's easy to overlook minute animals like the Hay's spring amphipod. Full-grown individuals only reach about one centimeter in length, and they're not fond of the limelight. They live almost all their ...

“It was beyond my wildest expectations to find something so interesting and bizarre.” These tiny white crustaceans, now called Model Cave amphipods or White Pine amphipods, live in cool, clear ...

The animal was a Melitid amphipod, a kind of “shrimp-like ... Here are three of our most recent eye-catching stories. → Big-headed flying creatures — with spotted bodies — found in ...

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 ...

Microsporidian parasites are a group of spore-forming unicellular organisms that can infect a variety of hosts, including amphipods, which are small crustaceans found in freshwater and marine ...