Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the shores of Okinawa, Japan, an American photographer witnessed something amazing. Hermit crabs were crawling into plastic ...

On the shores of Okinawa, Japan, an American photographer witnessed something amazing. Hermit crabs were crawling into plastic bottle caps, using them as their home instead of shells. Illegal ...

For more than 300 years, Italians have fried soft-shell green crabs, called moeche. But the culinary tradition is under threat ...

Animals have evolved crab-like bodies at least five times throughout history, a process known as carcinization.

A discovery in Washington's Skagit Bay has scientists warning that one of the world's most destructive invasive species has shown up in yet another sensitive coastal ecosystem. The arrival of European ...

A species of crab has been found to play an "unheralded role" in the breakdown of microplastic particles, according to scientists. The University of Exeter said scientists observed fiddler crabs in a ...