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 ...

A seafood boil is nothing without the right kind of shellfish. Here are the types of crab you need for a perfect crab boil, ...

Carcinization is an example of a phenomenon called convergent evolution, which is when different groups independently evolve the same traits. It's the same reason both bats and birds have wings .

Crabs have a habit of evolving to live away from the ocean. The crustaceans have clambered out of the sea and made homes in land-based habitats between seven and 17 different times since they ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A sign of a good baseball team is the ability to win in a bunch of different ways, a quality the Humboldt Crabs have ...

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 ...