Marylanders and visitors love the blue crab as a seafood delicacy, but they chose it as the state crustacean for more than ...

Scientists in New Zealand said Tuesday they have discovered a new species of "ghost shark", a type of fish that prowls the Pacific Ocean floor hunting prey more than a mile down. Researchers have ...

The St. Johns River is a crabby kind of place, meaning that there are a number of crab species other than the popular and personal favorite, the blue crab, present in the river. Most of them are small ...

LA PUSH, Wash. — A small but harmful invasive species was discovered on Washington's North Central Coast for the first time. European green crabs were found in waters near the port of La Push. Crews ...

Researchers studying life in the caves of Bermuda have verified the discovery of a new species of tiny crustacean. Findings recently published in the scientific journal ZooKeys said that the copepod ...

Horseshoe crabs have been around for 400 million years, but without protection, they could vanish from SC coast, ...

The humble horseshoe crab, an ancient species crawling seafloors since before the dawn of the dinosaurs, was durable enough to survive the mass extinctions of eons past. But now, hundreds of millions ...

The deepest part of the ocean is known as the hadal zone, where there is total darkness and extreme pressure. These mysterious regions are between 6,000 and 11,000 meters (3.7 to 6.8 miles) under the ...

Will Harlan, a senior scientist at the Center, says since 2000, horseshoe crab populations have crashed by more than 70% ...

The crabs' numbers have been depleted in recent years because of a loss of habitat and their value for testing new medicines.