Long Island Sound is home to a living fossil: the horseshoe crab. They have been around for nearly half a billion years, but today this hardy and helmeted species faces new challenges.

Tropical Storm Bertha raises concerns for Shell Beach crab fishermen ...

Timelapse footage showed a giant spider crab emerging from its old shell during molting.

As the ocean warms, invasive green crab populations are exploding — and they're taking over underwater habitat that is ...

A crustacean taxidermist preserves people's pet shellfish — including crabs, shrimp and lobsters. Jason Philip, 32, stuffs ...

ORCAS, Wash. — Invasive European green crabs have been detected on Orcas Island for the first time, following a discovery made by middle school students during a marine science field trip. The first ...

For decades, biologists have known that hermit crabs forced to live in shells that are too small slow their growth. What wasn't clear was how they did it. New research suggests the answer isn't simply ...

Love 'em or hate 'em, soft-shell crab season on Long Island has begun. Along the East Coast, the divisive delicacy finds many diners enthusiastic, while others wrinkle their noses at the crunchy ...

The iconic sideways walk of crabs may have evolved just once, in an ancestor that roamed Earth roughly 200 million years ago. That conclusion, published April 21 in eLife, comes from researchers who ...

Graduate students collect European green crabs in Tenants Harbor in the 2018 file photo. Credit: Courtesy of University of Maine A stroll on the beach can be good for the garden – just ask Marie ...

Biodegradable plastics hold potential for reducing marine plastic pollution, but degrade too quickly, limiting their practical use. Researchers from Gunma University now show that crab shell ...