When a research team took some samples of a coral species from the depths of the sea, they found an unexpectedly adorable ...

Scientists believe the small crab boarded the research vessel from a plastic bag lifted from the seabed during the coral sampling expedition.

New genetic research on the Alaska red king crab reveals previously undiscovered diversity among different regions, suggesting the species is more resilient to climate change and changing ocean ...

King crabs are just one of many non-related species that have arrived at a crab shape, thanks to similar selection pressures molding their evolution. This phenomenon is called convergent evolution, ...

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NPR's Juana Summers speaks to researcher Rikke Jeppesen about her work on how sea otters, which were hunted to almost near extinction, have been able to thrive by eating up to 120,000 crabs a year.

From California comes the story of native species defending our shores from pillaging green crabs introduced from Europe. Destroying native crab hatcheries, hunting juvenile salmon, and leveling ...

As invasive green crabs wreak havoc on California's estuaries, a new study has found that a restored sea otter population ...

The blue crab species Discoplax celeste is only found on ... they retreat to watercourses and they become clustered in a few small areas that makes it really hard to actually count them." ...

MONTEREY, Calif. (KGO) -- When we first met the hungry otters of Elkhorn Slough last year, they were chowing down on a species of burrowing crabs blamed for destabilizing the shoreline.

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Now, fishermen are once again allowed to catch snow crabs — but they're facing uncertainty as the species has only rebounded to a small fraction of what it once was. Meanwhile, some are still ...