This species is part of a group known as decorator crabs which adorn their shells with sponges or anemones for camouflage. Juvenile Japanese spider crabs will do this, but with few predators at ...

An American and a Japanese were among people who helped identify the mystery spider sac photographed by a Singaporean. Read ...

Camouflage using chromatophores is particularly impressive because chromatophore pigments are typically only red, yellow, or brown (Hanlon et al., 2011). Yet there are certainly other colors that ...

In camouflage, the shape and outline of the animal ... Some creatures even change color to blend with new surroundings, like the crab spider that changes from white to yellow when it moves from ...