Bailey cried. It appeared to be a monumental disaster. Her pet hermit crab, Speedy, was dead. At least, I thought it was when I saw pieces of the crab scattered about outside its shell. It looked like ...

Several locals have reported "unusual amounts of dead horseshoe crabs" washing up on Massachusetts beaches in recent days. However, officials say the spectacle is no cause for concern, as they're just ...

A dramatic video of a crab shedding its shell was posted on Facebook Wednesday by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, which called the process “pretty amazing.” The timelapse video ...

The annual crab molt that litters the city’s beaches with mounds of shells and crab bodies is larger than usual this year. “This is the largest molt I have seen in any recent time,” said Jim Waldvogel ...

MUKILTEO — State biologists reassure community members that what appears to be dead crabs littering beaches near Mukilteo are mostly molted shells. People have reported large numbers of Dungeness crab ...

He explained that a long time ago, someone realized that if you cooked a female crab during its molting process, you could eat the whole crab. The female soft-shell crabs normally cost a little more ...

The molting growth pattern of the Japanese mitten crab Eriocheir japonica (de Haan, 1835) was investigated under laboratoryreared conditions. Crabs were individually reared in freshwater for 5 years ...