Killer Lobsters of the Night [News]

You might not think of the lobster you're munching as a vicious predator but green crabs would beg to differ. Researchers recently discovered that, much to their surprise, lobsters (aka Homarus americanus), which troll the ocean floor along the east coast of North America from Labrador to North Carolina, move inshore at night with the high tide, hunting for prey."We shone our lights around and there were lobsters everywhere, all cruising around the intertidal zone," says Patricia Jones, a recent Cornell University graduate now headed to a graduate program in ecology evolution and behavior at the University of Texas at Austin. Jones is co-author of a paper reporting the findings in Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. [More]

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