Between 100 and 300 adult crabs will take up residence in Sarasota, producing those 250,000 crabs annually to eventually graze algae on the reef. Spadaro said that’s really just a drop in the ...

Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium celebrated the official opening of its Florida Coral Reef Restoration Crab Hatchery Research Center Monday as the first fully operational Caribbean king crab ...

‘Reef goats’: Seaweed-loving giant crabs could help save corals in the Florida Keys By Adriana Brasileiro. Updated December 14, 2020 6:07 PM.

For the Mesoamerican Reef in the Caribbean Basin – which spans almost 700 miles from the Yucatan Peninsula to Honduras – as many as 96 million crabs could be needed.

CHANG: You see; the crabs had mowed down more than half the seaweed. Four times as many baby corals were growing compared to reefs without crabs. And reef-dwelling fish were swimming back, too.

Over the next four years, scientists will plant 242,000 coral fragments and add 34,000 Caribbean king crabs on 10 reef sites – the seven targeted by NOAA and three others by Mote.

Mote's Caribbean king crab clutch will eventually be introduced onto Florida’s Coral Reef as part of the ongoing M:IR initiative led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA ...

Bizarre rubble-dwelling crab named after critter collector and Harry Potter characters. ... In 2001, amateur researcher Harry Conley discovered the translucent crab burrowing among reef rocks.

Smithsonian Scientist and a Reef-Diving Grandmother Team Up in Discovery of New Hermit Crab A new species of hermit crab is named to honor her 7-year-old granddaughter Molly ...

The remains of eight new species of crustaceans, including the oldest known spider crabs that lived 100 million years ago, have been uncovered in a fossil reef in northern Spain, scientists report.

Fossil reef yields oldest spider crabs ever discovered. This fossil of one of the new species of spider crab, Cretamaja granulata, was found at the Koskobilo quarry and dates back 100 million years.