After half a decade of worryingly low numbers, the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population appears to be fighting its way out of a slump. This year's field sampling estimated a total population of 349 ...

Tribes and scientists are mounting an urgent trapping effort to keep European green crabs from devastating a corner of Puget ...

Land hermit crabs are now extremely rare in Bermuda. To see one is a delight — the heavy white shell bumbling through the ...

What do bats do when they feel ill? SELFCURE, a multi-disciplinary project taking place in Gamboa, Panama, tracks the ...

As a morning fog lifted over Maine’s York River, Mike Masi and his two interns stood on a dock sorting through a mound of one of the region’s most despised crabs and hoped to find a few that would end ...

In Assam, women are cultivating indigenous rice varieties like Betguti and integrating freshwater crab farming to cope with erratic rainfall and prolonged dry spells, offering a climate-resilient ...

A tiny hermit crab has gone from an innocent beach find to one of South Africa’s most unexpected travellers. Named Shell-vis Presley, the little crab accidentally ended up in Johannesburg after a ...

A sea trout surprised visitors at the UGA Marine Education Center by leaping from its tank during a guided tour.

Scientists have been wondering who disperses the seeds of Balanophoraceae, a family of parasitic plants growing in the shaded and windless understories of Japanese tropical forests. In his newest ...

Weeks before Miss Crustacean Beauty Pageant and hermit crab races, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling on Ocean City to end its longtime summer tradition, arguing that the ...