It's easy to find Maryland crabs on land: An image of a blue crab graces one of the state's license plates, and Pinch, a fuzzy blue creature in a baseball jersey, prances around as the Southern ...

Pelagic red crabs are crawling all over the ocean floor near the Channel Islands in Southern California while enjoying El Nino-heated water.A stunning underwater video shared by Channel Islands ...

In 1976, the book “Beautiful Swimmers” offered a lyrical look at Chesapeake blue crabs and the watermen whose lives and livelihoods revolved around them. The book went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for ...

On occasions I am asked to identify my favorite animal. This question usually comes up when I am talking to a group of elementary students and they get into what I term the superlative questions: What ...

We’re closing on 40 years since William Warner, a New York-New Jersey boy, awakened us Chesapeake natives to the fascinating commerce, ecology and sociology attached to Callinectes sapidus, that ...

After seeing the beautiful king crab legs at my seafood market, I decided to make a dish featuring my favorite crab combination-crab meat with artichokes. This is a great dish for a special Sunday ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of crab that swam the sea 95 million years ago. The small, pocket-size crab, named Callichimaera perplexa, was very different from its modern-day cousins. This ...

It is a game of search and dredge. The trawler Phyllis Ann’s first tow of the day, made at the foot of the Statue of Liberty, returned just a half-bushel of blue crabs and a mess of unsalable spider ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of crab that swam the sea 95 million years ago. The small, pocket-size crab, named Callichimaera perplexa, was very different from its modern-day cousins. This ...

Scientists recently unearthed hundreds of pristinely preserved fossils from rock formations in Colombia and United States, including a 95-million-year-old crab that is completely redefining what makes ...