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 ...

Like creepy stalkers, cleaner shrimp won't share their partner with anyone else. When placed in groups of more than two, the creatures attack in the dark of night, killing off the competition. "We ...

In the ocean, the Pacific cleaner shrimp stands out from the crowd, with vibrantly white coloration on its back and its whisker-like antennae. An international team of scientists recently revealed the ...

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

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 intricate relationships between cleaner fish and cleaner shrimp underpin some of the most compelling examples of mutualism in coral reef ecosystems. These interactions involve smaller organisms ...

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 ...

A diver has filmed the bizarre experience he had when a shrimp cleaned his teeth underwater. Drew Kaplan opened his mouth wide and let the Pacific Cleaner Shrimp drift in to inspect his pearly whites ...

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

The 13-year-old queued with the waiting fish and then opened his mouth when the shrimps came near. The shrimp then incredibly started to clean Russell's mouth and remove food from between the boys ...