Christmas Island is officially crawling with crabs.

The great annual red crab migration of Christmas Island has begun! Do you think they travel in a pincer movement? Shell we ...

BLYN — The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe is working with a diverse group of partners to learn more about the population structure of Puget Sound’s Dungeness crab by studying the DNA of both larvae and ...

Every year, Christmas Island transforms into a living spectacle as millions of red crabs embark on their annual migration to the ocean. This extraordinary event, marked by a vibrant sea of red crabs ...

Stone crab claws are shown in this 2024 photo in Tarpon Springs. The creatures recently have been found in Chesapeake Bay for the first time. ©Douglas R. Clifford Over the summer, crabbers in ...

The genus Uca (fiddler crabs) includes both estuarine and coastal species, the zoeae of which must travel varying distances to reach the sea. Rapid seaward transport following hatching may be ...

If you live on The Internet, you’ve likely heard about carcinization: a kind of convergent evolution that’s seen a ...

Ocean acidification is damaging the shells of young Dungeness crab in the Northwest, an impact that scientists did not expect until much later this century, according to new research. A study released ...

Even with the neurotoxin-shortened season, 2016 has been a good year to be a commercial crab fisherman. “It's better than it's ever been,” says Fisherman's Wharf-based crabber John Mellor, who has ...

The prehistoric-looking horseshoe crabs native to the Delmarva Peninsula are on the move for their annual migration down the Atlantic coastline back to Maryland. According to the Maryland Department ...

Clusters of snow crab legs are displayed on Jan. 13 at the seafood counter at a midtown Anchorage grocery store. The product was identified as previously frozen. This season’s Alaska’s Bering Sea snow ...