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 * ... that the gooseneck barnacle Pollicipes polymerus (several pictured) will become sterile if there are no others within 20 cm?
 * ... that in 1781 both a Danish zoologist and a Swedish naturalist described the transverse ladybird?
 * ... that the clawless lobster Tricarina is known from a single fossil, obtained from an oil well 3852 m below ground in western Iran?
 * ... that Japanese skeleton shrimp are invading the coastlines of North America, Europe, and New Zealand?
 * ... that the crab Dyspanopeus sayi may have lived in the Venetian Lagoon for 15 years before it was discovered?
 * ... that Polybius henslowii has more swimming legs than other swimming crabs?