Deep-sea crabs may look like armored oddities, but many species wield deadly claws, venom-laced defenses, and survival strategies as fierce as the ocean depths they call home. From toxic coatings to ...

True crabs evolved to migrate between marine and land environments multiple times throughout their 250 million-year-old history, new study finds. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

All major Bering Sea crab stocks, including red king crab and bairdi crab, were way down too. The most recent survey showed a decline in snow crabs from 11.7 billion in 2018 to 1.9 billion in 2022.

Taking blood from horseshoe crabs has been done since the 1970s, initially in ways that killed the animal. Today, in theory, labs take some of their blood and return them to the ocean.

The 2022-23 Bering Sea snow crab harvest was canceled because of low stocks. ... And we just continue to see those small animals dying out of the population without being replaced, ...

Researchers found that the return of the crab-eating sea otters to a tidal estuary near Monterey, California, ... At one point, as few as 2,000 animals remained, mostly in Alaska.

A new species of hairy crab was discovered in the burrow of another animal in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia near a monument ...

Imbler’s new book, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures, is filled with essays comparing aspects of their life to bizarre creatures of the deep sea. From exploring their queer ...

A crab became a snack for a sea predator with “stinging tentacles” on an Oregon shoreline, a photo shows. ... The sea animal feasts on crabs, mussels, small fish and sea urchins.