“These Mukilteo beaches represent a location where Dungeness crab molt shells have accumulated many times in the past on the shoreline,” he wrote. “Crabs of certain size categories and sex ...

It was absolutely crab-ulous. Moo Deng, eat your heat out. A fun-size crustacean with a cartoonish face has smitten the internet with enamored viewers dubbing the critter the “cutest crab in the ...

It has happened so often with crab shapes it's been named carcinization. King crabs evolved from hermit crabs, and lost the need for a shell home up to 25 million years ago. Unlike true crabs that ...

The icy waters of the Bering Sea, home to billions of snow crabs, have witnessed a catastrophic disappearance in recent years. This phenomenon has left both scientists and the local communities of ...

This benchmark indicates the crabs are in a marketable condition, having completed their molting cycle and developed harder shells that yield higher-quality meat. According to WDFW Coastal Shellfish ...

Ecdysozoa is a group of animals that includes arthropods (insects, crustaceans), nematodes, and other worm-like organisms. One of the defining hallmarks of ecdysozoan animals is ecdysis, the process ...