Billions of snow crabs have disappeared from the ocean around Alaska in recent years, and scientists now say they know why: Warmer ocean temperatures likely caused them to starve to death.

The amount of times that crabs independently left the ocean is “astonishing,” says Katie Davis, an evolutionary paleobiologist at the University of York in England who was not involved in the ...

Over the past few years, billions of snow crabs have either vanished or been killed in the ocean around Alaska, and now scientists think they know why.

The crab usually associated with the mid-Atlantic is showing up in lobster traps in Maine. Scientists say it's due to the state's quickly warming ocean waters.

True crabs evolved to migrate between marine and land environments multiple times throughout their 250 million-year-old history, ... Most crab species still flourish in the ocean," Wolfe said.

In an acidified ocean, chemosensory-cue chemicals—and animals’ chemical sensors—may not work how they used to. Photo by Cavan Images/Alamy Stock Photo ...

O. n a rainy, windswept afternoon in November, Kaitlyn Bui stands near the water’s edge on Ocean Beach, casting a reel into the sea. It’s a few weeks into the recreational crab fishing season here in ...

In the final phase of their life cycle, the crabs descend from the open ocean and live just above the continental crust as bottom-dwellers. In this stage, they will take vertical journeys through ...

For residents of Ocean City, July 2021 saw thousands of the horseshoe crabs floating in the inland canals. Reports to the Maryland Coastal Bays Program led to an investigation.

Thousands of red crabs are seen walking on a road on November 23, 2021 in Christmas Island. ... Millions of the red crabs make their way across the island to the ocean to mate and spawn.

Billions of snow crabs have disappeared from the ocean around Alaska in recent years, and scientists now say they know why: Warmer ocean temperatures likely caused them to starve to death.