A plate of golden fried crab cakes with lemon slices and green salad - Bhofack2/Getty Images It's a beautiful thing when a region and its victuals are in complete symbiosis. Philadelphia has ...

"Meet the Mitten Crab, an invasive species native to East Asia that has found its way into New York waters," New York's Department of Environmental Conservation said Hauke-Christian Dittrich/picture ...

A petition to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries to extend endangered species protection to horseshoe crabs is gaining traction, with a bevy of organizations now backing the ...

The green crab feasts on about 150 different organisms, including everything from mussels and clams to baby lobster, posing a ...

Scientists are unsure how a Chinese mitten crab made its way to one of Oregon's largest rivers, but population control is ...

The vampire crabs were found on the fruit of palm plants in a freshwater swamp forest in Thailand, researchers said. Ng, P., Yeesin, P. and Promdam, R. via Tropical Natural History While exploring a ...

The federal government is shutting down the harvest of a species of marine invertebrate in a national wildlife refuge during the spawning season to try to give the animal a chance to reproduce.

A species of crab has been found to play an "unheralded role" in the breakdown of microplastic particles, according to ...

It's a beautiful thing when a region and its victuals are in complete symbiosis. Philadelphia has cheesesteaks, Champagne has ... well, Champagne, and Maryland has crab cakes. What makes Maryland crab ...