Over millions of years, nature has reinvented the crab at least five separate times across various lineages of crustaceans in ...

Sargassum swimming crabs live in floating seaweed in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico (renamed by the U.S. government as Gulf of America). They are camouflaged and small but aggressive ...

This week, WTOP takes you from the bottom of the bay to the picnic table in our four-part series Claws and Effect: The murky future of the Chesapeake Bay blue crab. Listen on air and read it online.

Octopuses, intelligent and agile predators, typically overpower crabs using their flexible arms, sharp beaks, and problem-solving skills. Crabs rely on their hard shells and strong claws for defense, ...

EXPLAINS FROM PASADENA. SEEING NO, NOTHING IN THAT ONE. IT’S SLIM PICKINGS THESE DAYS FOR BLAKE PANTS AND OTHER RECREATIONAL CRABBERS IN PASADENA. WE’VE HAD A DECENT AMOUNT OF CRABS IN THE BEGINNING ...

The fiddler crab is one of the most entertaining — and ecologically important — residents of our shoreline, Jace Tunnell ...

ALASKA, USA — A new study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration details the factors that contributed to the collapse of the Bering Sea snow crab population. Last year, KING 5 reported ...

In estuaries off the coast of Georgia, the water is so murky that if you were to dive in, you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face. There, blue crabs feast on mud crabs, oysters, fish and more ...

A 2022 deep-sea voyage discovered a glowing shark and a delicate, porcelain crab species off the coast of Western Australia.

The sargassum swimming crab is a remarkable pelagic crustacean that thrives among the drifting mats of seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Though primarily associated with ...