Not many creatures on Earth can pull off keeping a pride of curious lions at bay. But lions don’t want to get their soft noses pinched by a crab’s forceful claws any more than we would. The video ...

These colorful, feathery stalks are the antennae of a mole crab, also known as a sand flea. You may have seen these little critters burrowing into the sand at the beach as the waves wash over the ...

Millions of purple marsh crabs are churning through salt marshes along the East Coast, significantly disrupting the storage of carbon within these ecosystems. The small crabs' constant burrowing ...

Chinese mitten crabs are listed as one of the world's 100 worst invasive species. They cause problems by: damaging fishing gear such as nets with their sharp claws damaging river banks by burrowing ...

MONTEREY, California (KGO) — When we first met the hungry otters of Elkhorn Slough last year, they were chowing down on a species of burrowing crabs blamed for destabilizing the shoreline.

Instead, add sand, fiber bedding, or crushed coral. Hermit crabs prefer sand because they can burrow down in it. Playground ...

Research showed that ghost crab metapopulations experienced a notable recovery on urban beaches during lockdowns, with increased burrow abundance indicating a thriving young population[2].

For instance, I have projects evaluating how burrowing crabs affect the development of carbon and nitrogen cycling in restored salt marshes on the northern Gulf of Mexico and how snail mucus trails ...