It turns out that these crabs can produce fight songs as well, drumming a different tune to threaten a foe, researchers report in Animal Behaviour. All sound waves begin with vibration .

Today we have a slightly different episode, as we're not technically 'fishing', but instead crabbing! We're geared up with a very simple setup as we aim to catch ourselves some blue crabs. We talk ...

In this review of crustacean taxonomy, three scientists from a German university – Jonas Keiler, Christian S Wirkner and Stefan Richter – analysed studies dating back to the 1820s and noted that ...

There are a few types of Maryland blue crabs, each with its own unique characteristics. The male crabs, known as Jimmies, come in subcategories called number one or number two.

Coconut crabs are massive. Up to three feet in diameter, they scuttle across remote tropical islands in the western Indo-Pacific Ocean, cracking open coconuts like they’re made of butter, eating ...

Green crabs have been in New England since the mid-to-late 1980s, making their way from Europe and West Africa via cargo ships. 5 The New England seafood industry is trying to control the ...

Evolution keeps making crabs. In fact, it's happened so often that there's a special scientific term for an organism turning crab-like: carcinization. But how many times has it happened, and why?

Green crabs, an invasive species in New England, are damaging ecosystems and shellfish. Efforts to market crab broth offer a potential solution to this issue.

Before you get started, put the live crabs on plenty of ice, which helps keep them fresh and also calms them down. “We always use ice baths to cool them or you can shove an ice pick by the ...

Research reveals that five different groups of decapods have independently evolved to have distinctly crab-like traits. This is how “crabification” works. Why Crabs Are Taking Over the Kingdom ...

With the onset of the rainy season, Christmas Island transforms. Roads shut down, the forest floor comes alive, and tens of millions of red crabs take over.The remote Australian territory, located ...

Some little crabs with big appetites are getting the attention of Washington’s shellfish industry. Washington has the most productive shellfish farms in the nation. It’s a more than $200 ...