Don’t look now, but your favorite crabs may be migrating from life in the water to life on land—or vice versa. “Our research has shown that over the last 100 million years, true crabs have ...

While the word “hermit” may conjure up images of peaceful solitude and avoidance of conflict, the terrestrial hermit crab has proven that it doesn’t quite adhere to this vision. In fact, a recent ...

Did you know that terrestrial hermit crabs socialize with each other? According to a recent study at the University of California at Berkeley, researchers discovered that hermit crabs congregate ...

Victoria Watson-Zink, Ph.D. '22, studies the reproductive biology and developmental processes of terrestrial crabs. (Courtesy photo) Victoria Watson-Zink, Ph.D. ’22, a postdoctoral evolutionary marine ...

There are some pretty large animals in the world. Giraffes are notable for their long necks, and whales for their sheer size, but have you ever seen the biggest crab in the world? Coconut crabs are ...

Most terrestrial plants and animals left the ocean a single time in their evolutionary history to live ashore. But crabs have seemingly scuttled out of the sea more than a dozen times, with at least ...