Deep-sea crabs may look like armored oddities, but many species wield deadly claws, venom-laced defenses, and survival ...

As for feeding on the hatchlings, ghost crabs use their large claw to restrain the small turtles, while the small claw cuts through the soft skin around the neck. This partially or fully severs the ...

Sea otters ate multiple crab species, allowing snails, which crabs eat, to thrive. The snails then ate more algae that had blocked sunlight from reaching the sea grass.

Green crab abundance was consistently lowest in Elkhorn Slough, the only California estuary with sea otters, the paper published in the journal Biological Invasions found.

In 2018, there were an estimated 12.2 billion snow crabs in the Baring Sea. In 2019, that number dropped to just shy of 5 billion snow crabs, but it wasn't enough to raise red flags at the time.

In the eastern Bering Sea, the snow crab population plummeted after a marine heat wave in 2018. The crabs may have starved, a new study finds.

Sea otters are eating thousands of invasive green crabs at Elkhorn Slough, a reserve in Monterey County, California, according to a recent study.

Bering Sea snow crab, with two specimens seen in this undated photo, support an iconic Alaska seafood harvest, but a crash in population since 2018 triggered the first ever closure of the fishery ...

The snow crab population in the Bering Sea off the western coast of Alaska has fluctuated for decades. An increase in young crabs back in 2018 led to optimism that fishing would rebound.