A growing body of research suggests crabs, lobsters and other animals caught for seafood can feel pain. Scientists are ...

Crab-like animals have evolved into existence at least five unrelated times. It’s an intriguing enough phenomenon that scientists call it carcinization. Here’s why animals keep evolving into ...

While there are other animals that eat green crabs, their population only fell in an area of Central California when the ...

In place of white blood cells, they have cells known as amebocytes, which are extremely effective at detecting bacterial ...

Spiders, crabs, and other arthropods evolved from a group of animals that underwent a burst of ... [+] diversity around 500 million years ago. One fossil site provides an extraordinary glimpse ...

A crab became a snack for a sea predator with “stinging tentacles” on an Oregon shoreline, a photo shows. The crustacean was ...

Fishing for California Dungeness crabs can begin on Jan. 5. between the Sonoma-Mendocino county line to the boarder with ...

Along with its obvious impact on animal welfare, this annual harvest is contributing to a significant decline in the horseshoe crab population. This, in turn, deprives other animals—including the red ...

The largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ to date has revealed that 24% ...

An invasive species had taken over ecosystems across the West Coast and was threatening to dominate another one in Monterey County, California, when ecologist Rikke Jeppesen began her research two ...