Skip to content
  • Home
  • Random
  • Popular
  • Shop
  • Contact Us
WTF Fun Facts
Random Popular
  • Home
  • Random
  • Popular
  • Shop
  • Contact Us

crustacean

WTF Fun Fact – An Unlikely Crustacean

July 18, 2021July 18, 2021
WTF Fun Fact - An Unlikely Crustacean

Pill bugs, also known as roly-polys, are not insects but rather crustaceans. They breathe through gills and are more closely related to shrimp and lobsters than other bugs. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/springtime-science-whats-home-sweet-home-to-a-bug/

Leave a comment

WTF Fun Fact – Hemolymph Not Blood

October 22, 2020
WTF Fun Fact - Hemolymph Not Blood

Arachnids, crustaceans, and insects do not contain blood but hemolymph instead. In the case of insects, hemolymph does not play an important role in oxygen transport. Some common uses are: creating a hydraulic system, autohemorrhaging, and gluing themselves to other animals. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-is-bug-blood-differen/

Leave a comment

WTF Fun Fact – Mucus Cocoon

September 27, 2020
WTF Fun Fact - Mucus Cocoon

At night, Parrotfish protect themselves from tiny blood-sucking crustaceans called gnathiid isopods by creating a mucus cocoon which they sleep in. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2010.0916

Leave a comment

Follow Us On Social Media:

Fact Categories:

  • Animals (1,706)
  • Awesome (1,232)
  • Food (867)
  • Gaming (126)
  • Health (765)
  • History (1,658)
  • Laws (295)
  • Movies (317)
  • Music (76)
  • Nature (261)
  • People (2,104)
  • Places (1,319)
  • Science (442)
  • Sports (105)
  • Tech (340)
  • Uncategorized (946)
  • Weird (790)
  • Words (96)

Purchase Our Fact Book!

1077 WTF Fun Facts Book

Fun Fact Archives

Fact Lists

  • Did You Know?
  • Fact Of The Day
  • Fun Fact Friday
  • Fun Facts About Food
  • Fun Facts for Kids
  • I’m Feeling Curious Replacement!
  • Random Fact Generator
  • The WTF Fun Fact Book
  • Top 5 Fun Facts About Animals
  • Top Random Facts

Recent Comments

  • Laurence on WTF Fun Fact 13336 – Oceans with More Plastic Than Fish
  • Alan on president herbert hoover wtf fun facts
  • Roberto Manuel Latorre on what a harvard professor thought about bill gates
  • John on WTF Fun Fact 13545 – Stanford Taylor Swift Course
  • Theres Zilska on silkie chickens wtf fun facts

Download Our App


WTF Fun Fact is your best source for the most interesting & random fun facts about animals, people, food, movies, gaming, tech & much more. You will learn something about everything here!

Popular Pages

  • Did You Know?
  • Fact Of The Day
  • Random Fact Generator
  • Top Random Facts

Information

  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Submit Facts
  • The WTF Fun Fact Book
© 2013-2023 WTFFunFact.com / Privacy Policy
  • Home
  • Shop
  • Random
  • Popular
  • Categories
    • Laws
    • People
    • Weird
    • Food
    • Health
    • Places
    • Awesome
    • History
    • Animals
    • Uncategorized
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Download Our Android App