Captain Dan Veerhusen and Jan, his wife, run the Taurus, one of the few remaining boats that still fish herring in the Bering ...

The results were disastrous: roughly 10 billion crabs vanished between 2018 and 2021 and the industry went from a value of $227 million to nothing. A heatwave in the Bering Sea's waters may have ...

An invasive species had taken over ecosystems across the West Coast and was threatening to dominate another one in Monterey County, California, when ecologist Rikke Jeppesen began her research two ...

In 2021, researchers reported a shocking disappearance in the Bering Sea. Not of people, but of Alaskan snow crabs. And it's taken scientists years to understand how tens of billions of ...

In the neighboring Tomales Bay, the European green crab alone has caused a clam harvesting decline of up to 40%. On the East ...

Over the past two decades, the Gulf of Maine has become a popular landing spot for invasive species from across the world, ...

Small, hidden crabs may be the missing link influencing coral-eating starfish populations, according to a study published in ...

Male crabs of a species named after actor David Hasselhoff grow bigger claws than females so they can fight each other for a mate, according to a new study. Scientists from the universities of ...

Sea otters. Once nearly wiped out by the fur ... Today, about 100 otters call Elkorn Slough home, devouring tens of thousands of green crabs each year, doing for free what humans couldn't ...

is notable for its wing-like pectoral fins and its ability to 'walk' on the sea floor using crab-like legs. These legs also help in foraging, allowing the fish to taste the sand for prey like ...