Recent studies hint that crabs, lobsters, and other crustaceans experience pain and discomfort in ways we hadn't fully understood before.

A species of crab has been found to play an "unheralded role" in the breakdown of microplastic particles, according to ...

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. Researchers had only ...

Fiddler crabs in Colombian mangroves swallow microplastics, concentrate them, and break them into smaller fragments during ...

What is a hermit crab? There are over 800 species of hermit crabs worldwide, and almost all are ocean dwellers—though people are likely most familiar with the dozen semi-terrestrial species, called ...

“Horseshoe crabs have saved countless human lives, and now New Yorkers are returning the favor,” said Will Harlan, a senior ...

Hunting for Wild Insects & Crabs! In this video, we venture deep into nature to find dung beetles on trees and catch crabs in ...

It's true: Crabs keep turning up in nature, and it's bothering scientists so much that they've been given federal grants to get to the bottom of it. The phenomenon is so widely known that it's been ...

As a new immigrant to the U.S. with no family roots to tie me to a region, I was constantly moving to different places, following jobs and opportunities. Whenever I landed in a new city, I sought out ...