Small, fertile, rugged and fueled by an expansive appetite, the species, he says, is “an exemplary invader, a perfect invader ...

They then bury themselves in the mud or sand to stay warm and safe from predators. The crabs also accumulate ... shedding their hard shells, a process known as molting, and are therefore smaller.

Followed categories will be added to My News. The Gambaro Group’s annual Mud Crab Cup is back for the 22nd year, despite the recent closure of the iconic Caxton St venue, which was traditionally ...

“These Mukilteo beaches represent a location where Dungeness crab molt shells have accumulated many times in the past on the shoreline,” he wrote. “Crabs of certain size categories and sex ...

One of the defining hallmarks of ecdysozoan animals is ecdysis, the process of molting, or shedding, their cuticle, an exoskeleton that covers their body like a protective set of armor. Lately, though ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek tells host Carolyn Beeler about his walk across South Korea's Saemangeum, a tidal flat on the coast of the Yellow Sea. It was once home to all kinds of birds, ...

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It was absolutely crab-ulous. Moo Deng, eat your heat out. A fun-size crustacean with a cartoonish face has smitten the internet with enamored viewers dubbing the critter the “cutest crab in the ...

After the zoea stage, the larvae transition into the glaucothoe stage and look more like miniature crabs but retain some larval features. After molting out of the glaucothoe stage, the juvenile ...