Deep-sea crabs may look like armored oddities, but many species wield deadly claws, venom-laced defenses, and survival strategies as fierce as the ocean depths they call home. From toxic coatings to ...

A crab became a snack for a sea predator with “stinging tentacles” on an Oregon shoreline, a photo shows. The crustacean was snagged by a carnivorous g iant green anemone at the Seal Rock ...

Alaska’s snow crab show resilience to ocean acidification, which is underway in the Bering Sea. Study a possible bright spot for species hammered by a warmth-triggered crash.

The 2022-23 Bering Sea snow crab harvest was canceled because of low ... a National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries biologist who is one of the leaders of the council’s team that ...

In 2018, about 3 billion mature snow crabs (Chionoecetes opilio) inhabited the Bering Sea along with roughly five billion immature crabs, the Seattle Times reported.But by late 2021, those numbers ...

The study also showed that during their evolution, crabs appear to have adapted to a more terrestrial lifestyle as many as 17 times, either by shifting from the ocean to the intertidal zone or ...

[Alaska cancels Bering Sea king and snow crab seasons over worries of population collapse] But consecutive years of extreme warmth in the Bering Sea, conditions that precluded much ice formation ...

Crabs have a habit of evolving to live away from the ocean. The crustaceans have clambered out of the sea and made homes in land-based habitats between seven and 17 different times since they ...

A red king crab harvest returns, but at much lower levels than the past . The allowable harvest that opened on Sunday, as set by the state, is 2.15 million pounds, a little less than the 2.6 ...

For Bering Sea snow crab, which in 2021 dwindled to the lowest abundance of adults observed in the 50-year record, the crash took multiple steps.. The low abundance in 2021 followed what was a ...