A rare blue crab will be the most recent addition to the Delmarva Discovery Museum. The crab is a bilateral gynandromorph, meaning its half male and half female.

First, the half-and-half crab cradled the female under his legs, as a male crab would do in preparation for mating. Then, the crab seemed to lose interest and let her go, Johnson said.

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Currently, caught male blue crabs are able to be placed in lugs, but females are not. So watermen feel the program comes with a lot of hoops to jump through and they ask why the need for the ...

Ten minutes into my tour with Chesapeake Bay watermen, and I’d just asked the landlubber question of the century: What’s the difference between a male and a female blue crab? ‘How could you ...

What is known, according to the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, is that one female blue crab will produce between 800,000 and 8 million eggs annually.

The blue land crab is described to be as large as 5 to 6 inches and somewhat resembles a large fiddler crab, with one claw larger than the other. The department also said that although they’re ...

Blue crab populations in Chesapeake Bay are thriving, but Delmarva restaurant-goers aren't seeing much difference in price.