The first new species was named Geosesarma riani, or Rian’s vampire crab, after Dietra. It has a “squarish” body reaching ...

Narrator: But plucking these claws can be a dangerous process. Bill Kelly: The claws on an adult crab can have as much as 9,000 pounds of pressure per square inch. With the enormous pressure that ...

The genus Uca (fiddler crabs) includes both estuarine and coastal species ... and weaker or absent in coastal species and that adult ecology, not phylogeny, would best explain interspecific variation ...

Then the adult crabs will head back home into the forests, with the babies following when they have developed enough.

By the turn of the century, the red crab population had fallen by 10 to 15 million—about a third of the adult crab population. Not only did this affect the red crab’s annual migration ...

Most crabbers in the Pacific Northwest take to the water in hopes of scoring their daily limit of tasty Dungeness crabs. In ...

Collectors prefer adult male crabs because “they are more colourful with larger chelipeds (claws).” So far, both new species have been found in small, nearby areas of Java, the Indonesian ...