Male birds are, by and large, more colorful and flamboyant than their female counterparts. Juxtaposed with the eye-catching features of a peacock, a gray-brown peahen is plain as can be.

Maryland and Virginia have released the results of the 2025 Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey, showing decreased but stable populations of the crustaceans.

Only 133 million female blue crabs were estimated this year. The survey is conducted by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.

Bowie is half-red, half-blue; half-male, half-female; and all kinds of rare. A bicolored lobster is a 1 in 50 million occurrence, according to New England Aquarium biologist Jordan Baker.

Together, a dark-hued male crab spider and a larger, paler female resemble a flower, in what researchers suspect is the first case of cooperative mimicry By Gennaro Tomma 22 March 2024 ...

The 2022 commercial harvest turned out better than expected, despite the bleak survey results and the tightened crabbing rules. Baywide, watermen landed 42.1 million pounds of crabs last year, 15% ...

According to a 2024 study from the VMRC, the adult female crab population decreased from 152 million to 133 million in 2023, and almost 20 million decrease of blue crab numbers.

The term jimmy refers to a male blue crab. Jimmies are generally considered to be a good size for eating, often having a generous amount of meat, including jumbo, lump, and claw meat.

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.