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 ...

After the zoea stage, the larvae transition into the glaucothoe stage and look more like miniature crabs but retain some larval features. After molting out of the glaucothoe stage, the juvenile ...

As luck would have it, Budelli’s previous hermit caretaker was just about to retire, so Morandi took the job and lived alone in a house made of coral, granite and shells on the picturesque isle ...

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For two years in a row, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game canceled the snow crab season in the Bering Sea after biologists discovered an estimated 10 billion crabs had mysteriously ...

"But you have a whole continuum; you have the blue crabs which aren't as far along that evolutionary process as the red crabs. "They haven't completely left an aquatic environment, so they still ...