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Survival at Sea: Crustaceans

If you’re a tiny crustacean in an intertidal zone (“the area that is above water at low tide and under water at high tide“), surviving the crashing waves is a matter of getting low, low, low. Crustaceans stick to their homes and avoid the tidal pull by attaching to rocks or burrowing under the sand when the high tide and