Lithodid crabs (and other skeleton-crushing predators) may have been excluded from cold Antarctic continental shelf waters for more than 14 million years. The west Antarctic Peninsula shelf is warming ...

"The west Antarctic Peninsula shelf is warming rapidly and has been hypothesized to be soon invaded by lithodid [crabs]," said a 2011 study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Researchers report today (Oct. 7) in the journal PLOS ONE that lithodid crabs, part of the lumpy, bumpy family that includes the Alaskan king crab, repeatedly snacked on bacteria offshore of Costa ...

Off the coast of Costa Rica, an international team of scientists documented lithodid crabs of the genus Paralomis sp. grazing bacterial mats at a methane seep. The analysis show that not only ...

yaldwyni population density of [10,600/sq km] and a population size of [over 1.5 million crabs] in Palmer Deep, a density similar to lithodid populations of commercial interest around Alaska and ...

Sea spiders, monkfish, and lithodid crabs are just a few of the sea critters who call the waters off the Carolinas home.Windows to the Deep 2018: Exploration of the Southeast U.S. Continental ...

The scientists also documented larger fish such as Longspine Thornyheads and Pacific Dover sole as well as lithodid crabs, leading to questions about whether this and other West Coast seeps might ...

In dives with the submersible ALVIN and the underwater robot QUEST off the coast of Costa Rica in the summer of 2005, the researchers observed lithodid crabs grazing at bacterial mats at a methane ...