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Join the Aquarium crew for a strikingly prawnderful livestream on Thurs., Mar. 14 at 4 p.m. PT. We’ll be talking mantis shrimp with a mantis shrimp aquarist while playing the card game Mantis!

Time to shape up your exoskeletons with Shelly Skellie’s Super Short Skeleton Shrimp Sweat Sesh! Join Shelly as she shows her students a scintillating skeleton shrimp-spired exercise!

Skeleton shrimp (Caprella sp.) aren’t your typical shrimp-like crustacean. These abundant amphipods prefer to perch their pereons upon a piece of seaweed, bryozoa, or hydroid, moving about in an inchworm-like fashion with the aid of their grappling-hook-claws, called gnathopods. When the going gets tough, skeleton shrimp can get going, albeit a bit awkwardly — swimming by rapidly bending and straightening their bodies in a series of suspended underwater crunches.