It’s a crab-eat-crab world for the Chesapeake Bay’s juvenile blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus). Literally. Cannibalism is the ...

Young blue crabs face their biggest threat from their own kind, but shallow water can provide a crucial refuge from cannibalism.

After a year and a half of remote work and learning, UC Santa Barbara undergraduate students Sophia Lecuona Manos, Gabrielle ...

Researchers have published a nearly 40-year study documenting just how prevalent cannibalism is in the Chesapeake Bay’s blue ...

A groundbreaking 37-year study from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center reveals that cannibalism by adult blue ...

The Chesapeake Bay's most popular crustacean has a dark streak. Cannibalism is the No. 1 killer of juvenile blue crabs in mid ...

The researchers found that the smallest crabs were the most vulnerable, and more than twice as likely to get eaten compared ...

The findings by Smithsonian researchers could help experts better manage this crustacean's population. The creatures play ...

In an impressive 37-year-long investigation confirmed that the top—practically only—cause of death for young blue crabs was ...

The Chesapeake Bay’s crabs are tearing themselves apart. A decades-long study of the blue crabs living along the Maryland ...

A 37-year study in the Chesapeake Bay revealed that a major predator of young blue crabs might be their own kind ...