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.

Ocean acidification could threaten some of Alaska’s most important fisheries. Researchers warn that populations of red king crab in the Bering Sea – made famous by the show The Deadliest Catch ...

In the past four weeks, Dungies seem to be in even greater abundance. Scientists say that coincides with a strong dead zone -- water low in oxygen -- at sea.

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 ...

Ocean pollution has many consequences for marine life, including, it appears, getting hermit crabs "excited." Low concentrations of a common plastic additive called oleamide speed up the crabs ...

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.

Red crabs make it to the Indian Ocean. Island Care Christmas Island Last month, the “extra large” beasts were hiding in gardens, bins and garages across New South Wales.

The oceanic crab Planes minutus lives far from land. The crabs find a refuge between the upper shell and tail of loggerhead sea turtles, where they are nearly always found as a monogamous pair, one ...

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 ...

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.