The turtle didn’t look it, but she was about 48 years old. Four muscular legs ending in clawed toes moved through the air as ...

Blue crab populations in Maryland and Virginia's Chesapeake Bay are seeing an increase, the Maryland Department of Natural ...

The 2026 Bay-wide Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey show a 46 percent increase in the abundance of blue crabs in Chesapeake Bay, ...

For the last five years, populations of juvenile blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay had struggled to thrive. From 2010 to 2023, ...

After years of struggling numbers, Chesapeake Bay blue crabs are showing signs of recovery — at least in some parts of the ...

The Chesapeake Bay is seeing a major spike in the blue crab population, according to the Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey.​ ...

Georgia beaches are not just vacation hotspots. Also heading there now are multitudes of migrating shorebirds, seabirds and ...

Fiddler crabs are intertidal ectotherms that inhabit thermally dynamic mudflat and mangrove environments. Their body temperature is a function of environmental heat exchange, behavioural adjustments ...

BEAUFORT — One of South Carolina’s newest climate migrants has claws. A new study in the Journal of Crustacean Biology has found that the Atlantic mangrove fiddler crab has expanded it’s range north ...

If anyone should happen to think they’ve seen the musical Fiddler on the Roof often enough and can skip it this time around in its Asolo Rep production: No, you can’t. Sure, some of us can probably ...

A crab named for mangrove forests is leaving them behind. New research from William & Mary's Batten School & VIMS shows that the Atlantic mangrove fiddler crab (Leptuca thayeri) is settling into ...

Deep in the rain‑drenched forests of southern India, scientists climbed into old tree holes expecting to find tiny freshwater crabs. Instead, they met a creature split down the middle into “he” and ...