Along the coast of Indonesia, researchers encountered several unusual “mole”-like creatures living in the swash zone, where the waves rush up the beach before receding. They had discovered a new ...

Soft-shell crabs are one of the wonders of the culinary world, with their pliable, fully edible shells. What gives them their ...

A fossilized creature found in a South African roadside quarry 25 years ago finally has an official name. The small, ...

Soft-shell crab is a seafood delicacy that restaurants love to overprice, so try cooking it at home with these fish ...

Can you tell me what these flies are? They were on a wall in the garden. Are they some sort of stonefly? Albert Mason, ...

Spider Crab. Image by Tsarli at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Fiddler crabs, with their ...

A flesh-eating caterpillar dresses up in bones to sneak onto spider webs and steal prey, scientists have discovered.

The caterpillar species with a macabre fashion sense was discovered by researchers in Hawaii. Its casing is a disguise to ...

The first boatloads of Magellan spider crabs (king crab) arrived in Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile, late last week, marking the commencement of the 2009 spider crab season and the end of the ...

“If you wanted to help the blue crab population, you would shut down soft shell crab season for at least two to three years,” said Wertan. “The most important thing, you cannot take harvest ...

By sucking water into the smaller chambers and then forcefully pushing it out, the nautilus can propel itself across the ocean in search of its next meal: usually small fish, crabs, or lobsters. They ...