Hermit crabs rely on sensory hairs to gather life or death data on their surroundings. “For this study, I was especially intrigued by how they used their claws and other sensory appendages, such as ...

University of Southern Mississippi master's student, Lennah Shakeri, shows a live feed from a microscope of a juvenile blue crab at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs on Thursday, ...

If you have ever looked closely into a rockpool along the UK coastline, you may have been lucky enough to find a tiny hermit crab scuttling about. What you might not realise is that hermit crabs are ...

Big male crabs fetch the highest prices, but when it comes to ensuring the Chesapeake Bay will continue to produce those No. 1 males, researchers are increasingly paying attention to how many females ...

The extinct sea scorpion species Jaekelopterus rhenaniae had eyes comparable to those of today's horseshoe crabs. The two-and-a-half-meter predator was particularly apt at perceiving contrasts and ...