Juan Mateo Rivera looking for crabs in a stream in Assis, Acre State, Brazil in 2022. In Manizales, perched in the Colombian Andes, researchers are studying how a native species of small fresh-water ...

ALTHOUGH many people are familiar with the local snake catcher on The Bluff, Warren Dick, not many know that he responds to distress calls for other animals too. “The other day I received a call from ...

Two more people have been diagnosed this week with a rare parasitic infection after eating live freshwater crabs, the Orange County Health Care Agency said today. In all, four diners have been ...

Work by researchers at North Carolina State University is leading to a new kind of crab harvest – blue crabs grown and harvested from freshwater ponds, instead of from the sea. Crab lovers shouldn't ...

A sixth of all the world’s freshwater crab species are now threatened with extinction, according to experts. The scavenging creatures help to keep tropical aquatic ecosystems healthy, recy­cling ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of food eaten by ancient Maya elites during special ritual banquets. Researchers from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have ...

Two people contracted an extremely rare lung infection after eating raw freshwater crabs, the Orange County Health Care Agency said Friday. The state Department of Health Services is also ...

After two Orange County residents came down with a rare lung infection, public health officials warned Californians against eating raw or undercooked freshwater sawagani crabs. The imported crabs have ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A critique of Bǎnǎrescu's (1990) ideas and hypotheses regarding the importance of freshwater crabs in zoogeography is presented. We contend ...

Not many creatures on Earth can pull off keeping a pride of curious lions at bay. But lions don’t want to get their soft noses pinched by a crab’s forceful claws any more than we would. The video ...