The 14-Legged Crustacean With A Pouch And No Pee??

Random biology this week, since I feel like we haven’t done that in a while. Today, we’re talking about this critter:

Photo by Franco Folini, via Wikipedia

In most of Australia, we call them Slater beetles or Slater bugs, but they have a whole host of names around the world – often riffing on the ‘bug’ theme.

HOWEVER. I just discovered this week, that they are NOT, in fact, bugs: they are crustaceans. They have seven pairs of legs, they carry their eggs around in a pouch, and they don’t pee –...