• Invasive green crabs in the Gulf of Maine are devouring clams and lobsters—key species to the region’s seafood economy. • Green crab populations are exploding as warming waters in the Gulf create ...

Often treated as throwaway pets, hermit crabs can live 50 years. Mary Akers, a self-taught expert, wants people to appreciate them as much as she does. Credit... Supported by By Katie L. Burke and ...

Smithsonian researchers discovered who devours the most young blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay — it’s not people or even fish, but older, larger blue crabs with a surprising taste for cannibalism. And ...

Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results.

A 37-year study in the Chesapeake Bay revealed that a major predator of young blue crabs might be their own kind The Chesapeake Bay’s crabs are tearing themselves apart. A decades-long study of the ...

Smithsonian study finds juvenile crabs rely on shrinking shallow-water habitats to escape cannibalism by adults Kristen Goodhue The Chesapeake Bay’s most popular crustacean has a dark streak.

THANK YOU FOR reading this. Sometimes, I think if you didn’t read this, no one would, but you do. I know this from the letters and emails I receive about the column. Recently, there was a complaint ...

A food vlogger in the Philippines has died after eating a poisonous “Devil Crab" on social media. Emma Amit, 51, died in the hospital two days after she filmed herself eating the toxic Zosimus aeneus ...

A lumbering creature, older than the dinosaurs, has long been the source of a medical miracle. Scientists rely on the bright-blue blood of horseshoe crabs to test vaccines and other medical products ...

A red knot picks eggs off the shell of a female horseshoe crab. The male crab is the smaller one behind her. Jan van de Kam Griendtsveen NL HiltonHead Environmentalists are suing the federal ...

Dungeness crab season will open on the Central Coast near the start of the new year.The California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced that the commercial Dungeness crab fishery will open on Jan ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...