Crabs are intelligent, sensitive animals — and some scientists wish we didn’t boil them alive Crabs seem capable of sentience. This makes it difficult to kill them humanely for food ...

Fancy Crab Becomes The First Known Animal To Wear “Nature’s Headlamps” On Its Face. Story by Rachael Funnell • 49m. I n the mangroves of Singapore lives a very fancy crab.

Coconut crabs are massive. Up to three feet in diameter, they scuttle across remote tropical islands in the western Indo-Pacific Ocean, cracking open coconuts like they’re made of butter, eating ...

Have you ever seen a hermit crab or owned one as a pet? These tiny decapod crustaceans are known for their interesting habit of finding shelter. Rather than growing their own protective shell, such as ...

So why do animals keep evolving into crab-like forms? Scientists don't know for sure, but they have lots of ideas. Carcinization is an example of a phenomenon called convergent evolution, which is ...

They've adopted a crab-like body plan, but actually belong to a closely related group of crustaceans called "false crabs." When a trait appears in an animal and sticks around through generations ...

Horseshoe crab blood saves lives. Can we protect these animals from ourselves? Humans rely on the animal’s blood for lab testing, but the full repercussions of the industry are still not understood.

Horseshoe crab blood is used to test vaccines around the world. But while Europe has approved a synthetic alternative, biomedical labs are bleeding more crabs from the Atlantic coast.

Hermit crabs, like most of the animals CBC P.E.I. has profiled on our Beach Finds series this summer, are threatened by climate change. "They're cold-blooded animals, ...

Despite having "crab" in its name, the animal is closely related to the extinct sea scorpion and the still very much alive land scorpion. But horseshoe crabs do not sting.