Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's spawning season. That means you might start to spot blue land crabs around this time of year as the female crabs venture out ...

Over the summer, crabbers in Chesapeake Bay pulled up four funny looking creatures. They were not the bay’s normal, skinny blue crabs, but instead, chunky stone crabs, the delectable crustaceans whose ...

Young blue crabs face their biggest threat from their own kind, but shallow water can provide a crucial refuge from cannibalism.

Smithsonian study finds juvenile crabs rely on shrinking shallow-water habitats to escape cannibalism by adults ...

To view a slideshow from the Rustic Inn, click here. Fenton Stanley Ridgeway III hunches over a stack of Maryland-style blue crabs at Riggins Crabhouse in Lantana. He’s dismantling the crabs like a ...

Creepy, crawly arthropods have been invading homes and terrorizing people with their presence since the dawn of human history, so much so that knowing how to deal with interlopers like spiders and ...

A groundbreaking 37-year study from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center reveals that cannibalism by adult blue ...

It’s a crab-eat-crab world for the Chesapeake Bay’s juvenile blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus). Literally. Cannibalism is the number one killer of the crustaceans that congregate in mid-salinity waters ...