The coconut crab looks like something straight out of a monster movie. With a leg span exceeding 3 feet and claws capable of ...

The scale also sorts crabs by which of four evolutionary routes they took onto land, since crabs arriving via freshwater ...

Many people have the same fun fact about horseshoe crabs: these ancient animals have vivid blue blood that is used to check that vaccines are safe and may have saved millions of lives. But what you ...

Why do crabs walk sideways? Once upon a time, crabs moved in a forward motion like lobsters, or like you and me for that ...

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Scientists have long known that hermit crabs control their growth to fit in their shells. Now we know how they do it. New research suggests the answer isn’t simply that the crabs eat less. Instead, ...

The Hengchun Peninsula’s (恆春半島) coastal ecosystems are facing a severe ecological crisis, with invasive yellow crazy ants, overfishing and regulatory loopholes endangering terrestrial hermit crabs, ...