Fallout from a controversial decision in Virginia to lift a 15-year ban on harvesting blue crabs in the winter with heavy dredges has amplified tensions between states about how to manage the ...

David Johnson: So in 2014, we were on a muddy bank in the marsh up here in ... I found them as far north as central Maine. As I found more crabs, I started monitoring them to find out, is this ...

Snow crabs and king crabs are two closely related types of crabs, easily confused with each other because they are so big and ...

it’s the people who harvest the adult crabs, too. So while things are fine now, the future of the popular crustacean might be as murky as some of the muddy bottoms they traverse. Earlier this ...

Nine years ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great Marsh ... I was looking at a fiddler crab—a species that ... Crabs are unique and continuously evolving animals, often moving their ...

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have discovered that the facial bands of Parasesarma eumolpe crabs are shaped ... and murky hues of the muddy mangrove environment.

"He knew already that some animals, like hermit crabs, may evolve a crab-looking form from a non-crab ancestor," says Javier Luque, a senior research associate and curator of crustaceans at their ...