This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. The constant thrum of ...

How does your shore end up with 30 million horseshoe crabs? There are only two possible ways. The first is that your city is overrun by them in a horror movie. (Maybe because they flew there.) The ...

Seasonal components in the reproduction of three sympatric hermit crab species in the Bay of Panama are examined. All three species reveal reproductive patterns mediated by their supply of shells, ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- The 2017 Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey shows that there has been a surge in spawning-age female crabs. Their population has reached the highest level ever recorded in the 28-year ...

Despite its importance to the ecosystem, the horseshoe crab has undergone a huge population crash and is just starting to recover as threats mount to its recovery. My last column detailed the ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Modifications to the commercial and recreational hard crab catch and possession limits for the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries were announced Tuesday in response to a ...

Growth and reproduction were studied in the coral gall crab Hapalocarcinus marsupialis from fringing reefs in the Egyptian Red Sea. The host coral was Stylophora pistillata. The galls were divided ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the blue crab. The best way to understand an organism is to understand its genetic makeup, also known as its genome. Once the code is understood, it reveals ...