Each evening, as the sun sets over the Cuban coast, a woman in her seventies named María ventures alone into the muddy waters ...

On a cloudy Friday morning, a group of volunteers huddled on the shore of the Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, peering over Angelica Lucchetto’s shoulder at a ...

Billions of snow crabs have disappeared from the ocean around Alaska in recent years, and scientists now say they know why: Warmer ocean temperatures likely caused them to starve to death.

From 2018 to 2021, an estimated 10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the eastern Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, with the population plummeting to record lows in 2021.

Crabs have flat, rounded bodies and a tail that's folded under the body. Pakhnyushchyy/Getty Images. A flat, rounded shell. A tail that's folded under the body.

Crabs are intelligent, sensitive animals — and some scientists wish we didn’t boil them alive Crabs seem capable of sentience. This makes it difficult to kill them humanely for food ...

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

Horseshoe Crabs spawn during at Pickering Beach in Dover, Del., Sunday, June 11, 2023. – AP Photo/Matt Rourke. Recent revisions to guidelines for handling the animals should keep more alive ...