After a dozen years, the crustacean will grow to the size of a tractor tire.
These skeletal remains from creatures such as molluscs, crustacean and foraminifera create a pearly white sand beach.
Whereas Apalachicola's world may be the oyster, in nearby Port St. Joe the crustacean of renown is the bay scallop, harvested recreationally during the summer months.
The Prawns – as they are known in derogatory slang because of their vaguely crustacean appearance – spend their hopeless days brawling and getting high on pet food.
Tentatively named Ascidicola secundus, the animal is one of eight crustacean species found during the second phase of the Korean indigenous species project.
