The study measuring whether crabs felt pain was first published in Biology in October 2024. In it, scientists measured brain activity in crabs exposed to potentially painful stimuli. By attaching ...

Blue crab risotto, I gotta say, is this really elegant Northern Italian dish that totally captures the core of coastal ...

Crabs can feel pain when they are boiled alive during conventional food preparation —- as do other shellfish like lobsters, according to a new study. Zoologists from Sweden’s University of Gothenburg ...

Anyone who has ever been in the same room as a lobster boiling knows the distinctive sound of its scream as it’s cooked alive. The sound is not actually a scream — lobsters do not have vocal cords — ...

My very first time boiling seafood, I was a long way from home. I was visiting my sister in Phoenix, Arizona, actually — and we were not at all prepared to boil the 10 pounds of live crawfish she had ...

When spending time by the water, a seafood boil and boating excursion make for a fun summer weekend. Though if you've never been to a proper crab boil, it can be hard to know what exactly to buy. We ...

Perhaps one of the last commercially important species that is still harvested from the St. Johns River is the blue crab. According to the St Johns River Report, over 1.2 million pounds valued at $3.1 ...