Hermit crabs have a curled tail with a hook that enables their bodies to fit inside these borrowed shells. Sometimes when a ...

Crabs have a habit of evolving to live away from the ocean. The crustaceans have clambered out of the sea and made homes in land-based habitats between seven and 17 different times since they ...

The Pacific Ocean is becoming more acidic, and the cash-crabs that live in its coastal waters are some of its first inhabitants to feel its effects.

The oceanic crab Planes minutus lives far from land. The crabs find a refuge between the upper shell and tail of loggerhead sea turtles, where they are nearly always found as a monogamous pair, one ...

Choosing live crabs at the grocery store can be intimidating. Here's how they should look, smell, and even behave to indicate ...

Take a look at these extraordinary 'hairy' crabs and learn more about how and where these amazing creatures live.

The Pacific Ocean is becoming more acidic, and the cash-crabs that live in its coastal waters are some of its first inhabitants to feel its effects. The Dungeness crab is vital to commercial ...

Scientists near the Galápagos Islands followed the crabs, or squat lobsters, until they found the deep-sea hot springs in a hydrothermal vent field.

Ocean Pacific Coast crabs are suffocating Climate change has created dangerously low oxygen levels in the ocean, causing problems for creatures and the communities that rely on them.