There's nothing like sharing the love, but officials as far north as North Carolina aren't smiling over the latest invasive species making its way up the East Coast from Florida: blue land crabs.

Wildlife officials are asking Georgians to be on the lookout for a new invasive crab species popping up on the state's coasts. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources says it has received recent ...

This episode is brought to you by the Music for Scientists album! Why do crabs keep leaving the ocean to live on land? When a species evolves from living in water to living on land it’s called ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

True crabs evolved to migrate between marine and land environments multiple times throughout their 250 million-year-old history, new study finds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

New research into true crabs shows that the creatures, as a group, are as old as the oldest known dinosaurs. Evolutionary models have uncovered the fact that crabs, apparently, often migrated from ...

Some little crabs with big appetites are getting the attention of Washington’s shellfish industry. Washington has the most productive shellfish farms in the nation. It’s a more than $200 million ...

George Turner phoned last week to say he'd caught the biggest crab he'd seen in 46 years of crabbing the Severn River. "It was every bit of nine inches across the back," said the real estate man, who ...