The medical use of horseshoe crabs highlights the dilemma between human safety, environmental sustainability, and scientific ...

This Australian territory, with a human population of just over 2000 people, also has a very large number of red crabs! The ...

From the "Little Mermaid" character Sebastian to pet hermit crabs, people think crabs are wonderful — but some experts believe the way we treat crabs is downright barbaric. "If crustaceans screamed ...

An enzyme in the blue blood has been key to testing vaccines since the 1980s, raising concerns for the crabs’ population. But ...

The species population is plummeting. How can the governor see these animals only as a resource to be exploited?

Carcinization is the separate, five-time evolution of crabs. Parallel evolution isn’t unheard of by any means, but crabs have done it a lot. Their repeated similar evolution makes them interesting to ...

The animal world is chock-full of critters that do seemingly odd or unusual things. The decorator crab is one such example, a crustacean that likes to deck itself out in the latest fashion using ...

The annual red crab migration on Christmas Island has begun, as millions of crabs have emerged simultaneously from their burrows in search of a mate.

Humpback whales and domoic acid contamination are putting the brakes on California's commercial Dungeness crab fishery this ...