Clue to mystery crustacean in parasite form

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 15:00 in Biology & Nature

First identified in 1899, y-larvae have been one of the greatest zoological mysteries for over a century. No one has ever found an adult of these puzzling crustaceans, despite the plethora of these larvae in plankton, leading generations of marine zoologists to wonder just what y- larvae grow up to be...

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