In a river of ... unfamiliar-looking crabs. They took a closer look at the animals and eventually realized they’d discovered a new species: Sudanonautes nkam, or the Nkam freshwater crab.

Vampire crabs ... yellow eyes, have become popular as pets, but the origin of some of these spooky-looking crustaceans has been cloaked in mystery. Until now. Now researchers have traced the ...

On one trip, about 55 miles south of the capital city, Chang stopped at the freshwater ... The crab is “mostly brown overall” but has some darker brown spots, and orange and pale yellow ...

The researchers examined around 23,500 species of dragonflies, fish, crabs ... every big river in North America and Europe is massively modified” through damming, putting freshwater species ...

The giant freshwater ... in sandy or silty river bottoms. They breathing through holes, or spiracles, on the top of their bodies. Stingrays locate prey, usually clams and crabs, with sensors ...

A commercial fisherman turned up an exceptionally rare find on the Columbia River ... than a typical crab, and they're interesting because they can go back and forth between freshwater and ...

Besides the Singapore freshwater crab, other freshwater species NParks has successfully bred and released into the wild are the muff river prawn and the swamp forest crab. Citing an example of how ...

A photo shows the blotchy brown coloring of a Nkam freshwater crab. Nkam freshwater crabs live in a rainforest river. They are threatened by “habitat destruction, exploitation for human ...