Most isopods, including pill bugs, have 7 pairs of legs. Utilizing pleopodal lungs creates a permanent respiratory constraint on land. Scientists discovered crustaceans successfully adapted to dry ...
You’ve probably seen these little fourteen-legged chimeras at some point, though you may not have paid them any mind since you were a kid. Part shrimp, part kangaroo, and part armadillo, the ...
When pill bugs roll into a tiny ball, the act looks far simpler than it actually is. Known as conglobation, a pill bugs’ “ball” involves a full-body engineering trick designed to protect them from ...