Recent studies hint that crabs, lobsters, and other crustaceans experience pain and discomfort in ways we hadn't fully understood before.

A Mazon Creek fossil shows a horseshoe crab riddled with pits, likely from microbes or parasites, revealing a 300-million-year-old infection.

A species of crab has been found to play an "unheralded role" in the breakdown of microplastic particles, according to ...

Crabs can feel pain when they are boiled alive during conventional food preparation —- as do other shellfish like lobsters, according to a new study. Zoologists from Sweden’s University of Gothenburg ...

There is no elegant way to eat crab straight from the shell.

“Horseshoe crabs have saved countless human lives, and now New Yorkers are returning the favor,” said Will Harlan, a senior ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, beyond sunlight and far from conditions most animals could handle, lives a crab that looks ...

It’s official–the coconut crab has the strongest grip of any animal. Researchers at the Okinawa Churashima Foundation in Japan, found that a coconut crab’s pinching power corresponds with its size — ...

The first harvest of fresh Dungeness crab is in and folks are lining up to purchase the long-awaited crustaceans. Fisherman’s ...