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 ...

Another way animals camouflage themselves is through mimicry. Mimicry means you pretend to be someone or something else. Crabs can use mimicry to blend in and avoid being detected by predators in ...

The masked crab spider (Thomisus guangxicus) appears to team up to perfect their powers of camouflage mimicry. Environmental scientists Shi-Mao Wu and Jiang-Yun Gao of Yunnan University have ...

he told NewScientist. Crab spider is the general name for about 2100 different species of spider. They do not spin webs but use their camouflage to ambush prey. They are known for catching prey ...