Cleaning prawns may seem like a boring task, but it's very simple once you learn the right technique. Knowing how to peel and remove the intestines (remove the black thread) is essential for leaving ...

These unique photos capture the moment a boy has his teeth picked clean by amazing underwater shrimp. The fascinating creatures spend their lives diving inside the mouths of fish to remove the ...

Using underwater field observations in conjunction with behavioral experiments, researchers have discovered that a small crustacean, the yellow-beaked cleaner shrimp, performs a specialized dance that ...

Researchers at Australia’s Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture at James Cook University led by PhD student David B. Vaughan have held a talent contest to find the best species of ...

Television ads often use animals to sell things. How many animals, though, advertise for themselves? Cleaner shrimp do—their bold stripes and antennae movements advertise their services to fish ...

The hermaphroditic cleaner shrimp Lysmata amboinensis usually live in monogamous pairs, but dark passions underlie their social structure. New research shows that cleaner shrimp, in any group larger ...

Lysmata amboinensis: Will it survive the night? Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lysmata_amboinensis_in_Tropicar… The Lysmata amboinensis is ...

If you’ve ever watched a nature program on coral reefs, you’ve probably seen a cleaner shrimp. These animals set up cleaning stations on the reefs where passing fish let the shrimp pluck off parasites ...