These crustaceans have been misnamed for two reasons: First, they’re not true crabs, like ... molting through several stages before acquiring a shell of their own and coming back to land. Hermit ...

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

But the exoskeletons don’t grow with the animals like human’s bones do. In order for crabs to grow, they must shed the outgrown shells. Dungeness crabs molt roughly a dozen times before they ...