Development and pesticide use have reduced their numbers.Bag limit: You can keep 20 per person from Nov. 1 through June 30.

Blue land crabs have been creeping their way up the East Coast, prompting officials in Georgia, South Carolina and North ...

If we became crab-like it would be a slightly horrifying experience, an expert tells us. Crabs molt their entire outer ...

These crabs have an exoskeleton covering only the front part of their bodies, while their abdomens and tails remain soft and ...

PERMIT me to inform Mr. J. C. Galton that the authority for my statement in the “Outlines of Physiology” is also derived from “some book or other;” and that this “turns out” to be the ...

URUMQI, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- The Jeminay Port in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region handled 20 tonnes of live king crabs from the Arctic Ocean on Wednesday. This marks the inaugural ...

There are over 800 species of hermit crabs worldwide, and almost all are ocean dwellers—though people are likely most familiar with the dozen semi-terrestrial species, called land hermit crabs ...

The crab’s “crimson” claws earned its name Strigopagurus fragarchela from the Latin form of strawberry, “Fragaria,” and ...

A stowaway crab found on a plane that landed at Denver International Airport this summer can now be viewed by the public at the Denver Zoo. U.S. Fish and Wildlife was called to the airport in June ...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — A Port St. Lucie homeowner is sharing his story after big land crabs invaded his property earlier this week. "Oh my goodness, I saw all those crabs and I said, wow!" ...