When you think about crabs, you probably picture an angry little creature shuffling sideways while pinching its claws in the air. However, these sideways walks are not the only form of movement of ...

Living and studying the St. Johns River has many side benefits. For one thing, it is home to two of my favorite crustaceans. Some longtime readers of River Life might recall that the species nearest ...

There's nothing like sharing the love, but officials as far north as North Carolina aren't smiling over the latest invasive species making its way up the East Coast from Florida: blue land crabs.

No. 1 male crabs are those that measure at least 6 1/2 inches from point to point. In Maryland, consumers will pay almost any price for No. 1s, so most of those caught in Louisiana's waters end up in ...

Sargassum swimming crabs live in floating seaweed in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico (renamed by the U.S. government as Gulf of America). They are camouflaged and small but aggressive ...