During their two-week sojourn on Delaware Bay, red knots nearly double their body weight to prepare for the final leg of their voyage. This year, however, cool temperatures delayed crab spawning ...

The American Littoral Society educated the public about the world's largest population of spawning horseshoe crabs on the ...

The crabs have special back legs that allow them ... vessel he travelled on to Australia was called HMS Beagle. “This voyage is considered to have made a profound impact on Darwin, leading ...

He wrote about coconut crabs after encountering them during his Beagle voyage through the Indian Ocean, describing them as "a monstrous size," and marveling at the ease in which the great crab ...

One of the most prominent — and pinchy — ways this manifests is known as carcinization, the idea that nature keeps evolving crabs. Indeed, a crab-like body shape, or morphology, has evolved ...

Along the Atlantic Coast, one species is supporting ecological and human health — the American horseshoe crab. In Maryland, horseshoe crabs are a common site on the coast and in coastal bays.

The best time to see the ancient wonders that are horseshoe crabs is now, as they return to Delaware Bay beaches for spawning season. Horseshoe crabs first developed 540 million years ago in the ...

A 3D model of the crab's facial surface was created using non-contact scanning and high-resolution frontal texture mapping. Lightwave 9.6 software simulated ten lighting environments, each with ...