Juan Mateo Rivera looking for crabs in a stream in Assis, Acre State, Brazil in 2022. In Manizales, perched in the Colombian Andes, researchers are studying how a native species of small fresh-water ...

ALTHOUGH many people are familiar with the local snake catcher on The Bluff, Warren Dick, not many know that he responds to distress calls for other animals too. “The other day I received a call from ...

Work by researchers at North Carolina State University is leading to a new kind of crab harvest – blue crabs grown and harvested from freshwater ponds, instead of from the sea. Crab lovers shouldn't ...

Three researchers led by Chao Huang recently scored big when they together visited a Chinese pet store in search of interesting creatures. In this case, they were looking at the crabs the store had to ...

After two Orange County residents came down with a rare lung infection, public health officials warned Californians against eating raw or undercooked freshwater sawagani crabs. The imported crabs have ...

Thiruvananthapuram: A new genus of freshwater crab has been discovered from two habitats in Kerala with least human intervention. According to the scientists who discovered the genus ‘Karkata’, which ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of food eaten by ancient Maya elites during special ritual banquets. Researchers from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have ...

In the highlands of Luzon in the Philippines, a new species was discovered by a surgeon on a trip, researchers said. AR via Unsplash Robert L. Chang, a colorectal surgeon from Manila, has taken many ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A critique of Bǎnǎrescu's (1990) ideas and hypotheses regarding the importance of freshwater crabs in zoogeography is presented. We contend ...

Two more people have been diagnosed with a rare parasitic infection after eating live freshwater crabs, the Orange County Health Care Agency said Thursday. In all, four diners have been reported ...

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 ...