That means you might start to spot blue land crabs around this time of year as the female crabs venture out to sea to release their eggs, a time period called spawning season that lasts from June to ...

Researchers from Kumamoto University and collaborating institutions have discovered a new species of deep-sea sea anemone ...

Most terrestrial plants and animals left the ocean a single time in their evolutionary history to live ashore. But crabs have seemingly scuttled out of the sea more than a dozen times, with at least ...

For the countless horseshoe crabs that trek up Ocean City's 94th Street canal, a successful spawning period could be the difference between sustaining or losing the species entirely. Research that ...

The crab usually associated with the mid-Atlantic is showing up in lobster traps in Maine. Scientists say it's due to the state's quickly warming ocean waters. In a region known for its lobster, a new ...

It's not dead oak and beech leaves on their minds, however, but another red-tinted carpet—100 million crimson-colored crabs.

Humpback whales and domoic acid contamination are putting the brakes on California's commercial Dungeness crab fishery this ...