Manila - Four new species of freshwater crab, bright purple in colour, have been discovered in the biologically diverse Philippines, according to a scientific paper. The tiny crustaceans were found in ...

Today, the shallows of the Delaware and Chesapeake bays are essential habitat for one of the four living horseshoe crab species: the Atlantic horseshoe crab. Horseshoe crabs gather on Delaware Bay ...

In the tangled darkness of Southeast Asian mangrove forests, one crab species appears to have evolved a structure that functions like a miniature car headlamp. Researchers at the National ...

This practice, combined with overharvesting of the crabs for fishing bait, has caused a decline in the species in the region in the past few decades. Catching crabs and harvesting their blood is ...

Green crabs make a versatile and flavorful soup base. Periwinkles, a European delicacy with a mild shellfish flavor, are abundant along the shore. Knotweed is a scourge to native vegetation, but ...

The proposed change could give developers and corporations more freedom to build and urbanize, potentially threatening species like the Florida panther, gopher tortoise, and red-cockaded woodpecker.

Two invasive, house-destroying species of termites are now cross-breeding in South Florida. Researchers found the aggressive Formosa and Asian subterranean termites have begun mingling and mating ...

A federal judge Monday ordered the Florida Department of Environmental ... he ruled April 11 that the state violated the Endangered Species Act in the northern Indian River Lagoon, which is ...