Say hello to Strawberry Claws, a large new-to-science species of hermit crab recently described by Queensland Museum ...

A hermit crab trundles across a beach in Japan's Okinawa, carrying its home on its back: not a shell, but a disintegrating plastic yellow measuring spoon. The crab is far from alone. Plastic waste has ...

If we became crab-like it would be a slightly horrifying experience, an expert tells us. Crabs molt their entire outer exoskeleton, from their eyes to their gut.

Scientists build clever contraptions to study animal behavior like the hermit crab housing market. In his quest to understand the hermit crab housing market, biologist Mark Laidre of Dartmouth ...

Everything looks peaceful until the rock he's studying suddenly stands up to reveal itself as a giant crab, knocking the diver down into a black abyss. After blacking out, the explorer wakes up to ...

Shrill, frantic, and hideous to look at, "Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue" isn't just one of the worst animated movies of the year—it's one of the worst movies of the year, period. I hate to dunk ...

Emerging from muddy holes and hides with the ebb and flow of the tides, the giant mud crab (Scylla serrata) – also known as the green mud crab – forages for molluscs, other crabs and carrion. Despite ...

A person falls down the stairs, but is unhurt. An animal threatens another, saying "I'll neuter you all over again." Pets get stuck on a dangerous conveyor belt at the airport, crashing into things ...

One of the most prominent — and pinchy — ways this manifests is known as carcinization, the idea that nature keeps evolving crabs. Indeed, a crab-like body shape, or morphology, has evolved ...

Hermit crabs can look incredibly bizarre and have bright coloration, fascinating behaviour and endearing personality. And there's a hermit for most marine systems — although you need to be careful ...

claw-some. We're talking about fresh Florida stone crabs, and the season begins this month. Beginning Tuesday, October 15 through Thursday, May 1, the eagerly anticipated annual harvest of stone ...