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Description: | This fossil is a mud lobster, a species that is still alive today. Mud lobsters live in mangrove swamps throughout southern Asia and Australasia. They burrow in the soft mud of the swamp, filtering the sediment for food - tiny organic particles. The lobster has to filter huge amounts of mud to get enough food, and large volcano shaped mounds soon develop around a lobster burrow. These mounds form an important habitat for many other mangrove animals. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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