SARASOTA, Fla. - A small-scale release of hatchery-raised Caribbean king crabs happened on Tuesday at a coral restoration site in the lower Florida Keys. Caribbean king crabs are known as powerful ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — Researchers with Mote Marine Laboratory have released hatchery-raised Caribbean king crabs onto Florida’s Coral Reef for the first time. It is part of an ongoing effort to ...

For certain vulnerable corals, help is in the claws of a crab. Reporting in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, researchers found that a species of branching coral benefitted from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Moat Marine Laboratory releases hatchery-raised Caribbean king crabs onto Florida's coral reef to control algae and aid in reef ...

While exploring Hawaii’s coral reefs one will discover a world bustling with activity. Colorful fish flitter near the coral eating, cleaning and perhaps even hiding from perceived danger. Spiny sea ...

Crabs are one of evolution’s strangest success stories because unrelated animals have independently evolved crab-like bodies multiple times over hundreds of millions of years . Scientists call this ...

Gall crabs are tiny and yet these crustaceans have evolved fluorescence to help them be concealed within hideouts they have created in the coral itself [1]. “These crabs are everywhere,” says Susanne ...

Coral reefs, those vibrant underwater cities, stand on the precipice of collapse. While rising ocean temperatures and coral bleaching grab headlines, a new essay in Current Biology reveals a hidden ...