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Atlantic mangrove fiddler crabs are found 200 miles north of their historic range, expanding due to warming ocean waters.

In a first-of-its-kind experiment tracing evolution across 25 generations, scientists have discovered that marine copepods—the tiny crustaceans at the heart of the ocean food web—rely on a largely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's spawning season. That means you might start to spot blue land crabs around this time of year as the female crabs venture out ...

Far beneath the wavetops, down into the dark ocean depths, a rarely seen crustacean makes its home. It's called Alicella gigantea, and it's the largest known species of amphipod, a shrimp-like species ...

Smithsonian researchers discovered who eats the most young blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay – it’s not people, or even fish, ...

Fiddler crabs in mangrove forests eat and degrade microplastics into nanoplastics, offering clues to the "missing plastic ...

It’s a crab-eat-crab world for the Chesapeake Bay’s juvenile blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus). Literally. Cannibalism is the number one killer of the crustaceans that congregate in mid-salinity waters ...