Instead, hermit crabs have a hard exoskeleton on the front part of their bodies but a soft tail on the other half, which they protect using the discarded shells of other animals, like whelks.

So the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is urging people to report sightings of the prehistoric crabs mating. That way they'll know the most important horseshoe crab spawning ...

Alabama's blue crab catch -- at 1.4 to 4 million pounds per year -- may be tiny compared to the nearly 30 million pounds ...

A pound of claws can cost two times the price of Alaskan snow crab legs. Part of what makes these crabs so costly is the labor-intensive process of catching them. Ernie Piton: There's a nice crab.