Yellow crab on the beach (Getty Images/Bob Stefko)We see this as well in the existence of many types of decapods, which is the technical term for crustaceans with a crab-like body shape.

Coconut crabs are massive. Up to three feet in diameter, they scuttle across remote tropical islands in the western Indo-Pacific Ocean, cracking open coconuts like they’re made of butter, eating ...

Evolution keeps making crabs. In fact, it's happened so often that there's a special scientific term for an organism turning crab-like: carcinization. But how many times has it happened, and why?

Crabs are one of the oldest inhabitants on Earth as they have existed long before dinosaurs, about 300 million years ago in ...

A flat, rounded shell. A tail that's folded under the body. This is what a crab looks like, and apparently what peak performance might look like — at least according to evolution.A crab-like ...

Ridiculous hats aren’t exclusive to British nobility—sponge crabs also make bold fashion statements with their headgear. And now, new research unveils for the first time how these crustaceans ...

Green crabs, she said, gave the dish a flavor so savory that she could envision the crabs being used to enrich a new kind of surimi, which is commonly sold as imitation crab, made with silver-carp ...

Have you ever heard of crab theory? It’s a human behaviour that mirrors the behaviour of crabs in a bucket, where one crab tries to crawl out, only to be pulled down by the other crabs. In short, it ...

The older people of London are becoming crabs. Having experienced the fun side of London in their 20s, they are now intent on destroying it for everyone else, ...

The older people of London are becoming crabs. Having experienced the fun side of London in their 20s, they are now intent on destroying it for everyone else, ...