Instead, the soft shell part comes down to timing and when the crabs are caught. As they grow, blue crabs (and other species) shed their hard outer shells so that they can grow new, larger ones.

State biologists reassure community members that what appears to be dead crabs littering beaches near Mukilteo are mostly ...

The larval crabs will live on ocean plankton, molting through several stages before acquiring a shell of their own and coming back to land. Hermit crabs don’t breed well in captivity ...

These crabs come together to shed their old shells in a process called moulting. It was our first day of filming and although the crabs had stayed in place for the last week, today they had ...

When female red rock crabs shed their shells, the males will guard them for weeks on end until their new shell has hardened. Red rock crabs can be found in estuaries, rocky and soft bottom habitats in ...