How does your shore end up with 30 million horseshoe crabs? There are only two possible ways. The first is that your city is overrun by them in a horror movie. (Maybe because they flew there.) The ...

Taylor Henry, 8, volunteered to count horseshoe crabs along the shoreline at midnight. He said the way the males pile on top of one another reminds him of "cuddling" with his cat, Catty. At Stage ...

The first signs of the Alaskan invasion were discovered by an intern. In July, a young woman walking the shoreline of the Metlakatla Indian Community during an internship with the National Oceanic and ...

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When a nondescript, brownish crab was hand-caught in the Willamette River in November 2025, it raised the alarm at the Oregon ...

The West Coast Dungeness crab fishery doesn't just support the most valuable annual harvest of seafood on the West Coast. It's a fishery that just keeps on giving. Fishermen from California to ...

An egg-bearing blue crab found near Oyster, VA. Scientists believe the presence of an egg-eating parasitic worm may aid in the management of the fishery by revealing the number of times a crab has ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the blue crab. The best way to understand an organism is to understand its genetic makeup, also known as its genome. Once the code is understood, it reveals ...

At Stage Harbor in Chatham, Derek Perry, the state’s horseshoe crab biologist, walks the shoreline, counting how many horseshoe crabs fall within a 25-square-meter area. It’s not an easy task, ...

Fishermen from California to Washington caught almost all the available legal-size male Dungeness crab each year in the last few decades. However, the crab population has either remained stable or ...