Dungeness crab, Pacific herring, and red abalone are among the marine species most vulnerable to the changing climate's effect on California's coastal waters, a new study led by UC Santa Cruz ...

The giant mud crab (Scylla serrata) is a crab species native to the Indo-Pacific region, commonly living in mangrove forests, estuaries and shallow coastal waters. This Indo-Pacific mud crab can ...

There are over 800 species of hermit crabs worldwide ... plastic debris on two tropical islands in the South Pacific. When these trapped crabs die, they release a pheromone signal to other ...

Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on Earth ... those appendages are its 10 legs. Japanese spider crabs live on the Pacific side of Japan as far south as Taiwan and at chilly depths ranging ...

As climate change has destabilized large parts of the local fishing industry, western Washington has turned its focus to the dungeness crab, a valuable species in the state’s fishing and ...