Placing a compound eye on a stalk offers the advantage of an expanded visual field, since the eye now can sit like a periscope away from its owner's carapace, and the stalk provides the potential for mobility of the eye as the animal or its visual targets move about.
The limo is an extension of Eric: it's car and carapace both, but it also provides him with literal windows onto a world that, as the day unfolds, comes ferociously, threateningly alive with anarchist protests, a vision of self-annihilation and stirrings of revolution.
The observation of several male crabs identified as C. aestuarii but possessing carapace width to length ratios characteristic of C. maenas provides the only morphological indication that some crabs may derive from mixed parentage [33].
The metal provides the backbone of skyscrapers, bridges and motorways, and the carapace and internal organs of cars, fridges and washing machines.
In cold water, the entire body cavity of the larger turtle is likely more homogenous in temperature than the smaller turtle because the plastron and carapace are thicker, will provide better insulation, and there is a larger volume of blood circulating endogenously produced heat.
The beetle is much larger than the fly, so we might predict it provides more DNA (beetle > fly); however, the beetle is trapped inside a much harder carapace and so the DNA is harder to extract (fly > beetle).
We conclude that fossil melanin provides a good estimation of past underwater UV exposure in lakes with large cladoceran carapaces preserved in sediments and that the method introduced here is easy and cost- and time-efficient technique to be widely used in paleoaquatic UV inferences.
Arguably one of the most mobile or dynamic marine ecosystems is a sea turtle carapace, hosting tens to hundreds or even thousands of epibiotic organisms; and as the turtle breeds, feeds and migrates, provides an ecosystem that is continuously exposed to changes and potential colonizers.
The leatherback turtle has ridges along the carapace to enhance the hydrodynamic flow and provide a tailored stiffness.
The carapace can offer further protection to the embryo.
