A possible limit of harvesting female crabs in North Carolina is leaving some fisherman concerned. The North Carolina ...

Small, hidden crabs may be the missing link influencing coral-eating starfish populations, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

When water temperatures rise to 60 degrees and level off after the last cold snaps of winter, the coastline welcomes ...

Cuttlefish use visual tricks to avoid being eaten. New research shows how they deploy similar camouflage to bamboozle their ...

The remote South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic are a perfect place to find new and rarely seen species, and a Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition in the region is finding many of those species ...

In the neighboring Tomales Bay, the European green crab alone has caused a clam harvesting decline of up to 40%. On the East ...

The annual migration of Christmas Island's red crabs—where millions of creatures cover its beaches as they make their way ...

Memes about repeated evolution of crabs have been co-opted to joke about technology and “ultimate forms.” They’re hilarious, ...

Environmentalists warn of the threat to endangered horseshoe crabs in Balasore due to destructive fishing practices and lack ...

On Tuesday, the Bayside Inn served what could be its last crabs. That night, the Edgewater restaurant abruptly announced its ...

Reporting in Proceedings Biological Sciences, researchers found that a species of branching coral benefitted from a reef-dwelling crab, especially when the coral was heat-stressed and wounded. The ...

Changes in salinity had no impact on the crabs' time of first heartbeat, time of hatching, first in-egg embryonic or ...