“Boss, we produced too many Easter eggs this year, what will we do with them?!” “When do they expire?” “Next January.” “Change the boxes to penguins and gingerbread men, well sell ‘em at Christmas.”

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Late-night #crustmas posting, just in time for day nine! Keeping the theme of spindly critters, this is the false arrow crab. They're named for their extremely elongate, arrow-shaped rostrum. Algae grows sparsely on the shell, enhancing camouflage as such a body offers little physical defense.

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What's a false arrow crab? Because that's already a thing...

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New paper out! We show that heart cockles use bundled fiber optic cables to transmit light through "skylights" in their shell for their photosynthetic algae. The skylights filter out harmful UV radiation. These coral analogues are cool critters!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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"Biological fiber optic cable enhanced mollusc agriculture." was not something I expected to exist but I will be thinking about it for the next week at LEAST.

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