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European green crabs have been clawing and eating their way through marshes and bays in Washington state. Like the native crabs they often prey on, these destructive invaders are themselves edible.

This loggerhead sea turtle washed ashore in Texas covered in layer of encrustation, including barnacles in its mouth, experts discovered. Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research photo It’s common for slow ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The SplashZone, a normally tranquil children's section at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, has become the scene of underwater carnage at the claws of a killer shrimp. Prized sea snails, ...

Dead zones are back in the Chesapeake Bay, or so I've read -- vast swaths of water where oxygen disappears in summer and nothing can survive. The trouble is, dead zones move around. I'm looking for ...

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