Crabs are some of the coolest creatures out there. And spider crabs are even more impressive. Not only do they look strange—in their ridged, salmon-color armor—but they have so many fascinating quirks ...

Hulu’s Alien: Earth series has emerged as one of the most refreshing and inventive entries in the long-running sci-fi series. While xenomorphs clashing with synthetics is familiar territory, the real ...

Let’s just say, they don’t have the thickest of skins. Spider crabs have the dual challenge of being delicious and needing to moult, and once a year, this spells trouble. Found in the cool waters ...

Dr Elodie Camprasse receives funding from the Victorian government. Every winter in shallow waters off Australia’s southern coast, armies of native spider crabs appear in their thousands. They form ...

Studying an underwater volcano is hard enough without a spider crab getting in the way. In an absolutely delightful field dispatch, Jes Burns of Oregon Public Broadcasting tells the story of a crab, ...

Summer has arrived on the Seacoast and although it may still seem cool to us it is warming for the Gulf of Maine’s inhabitants. The temperature in the water along Hampton Beach this past weekend was ...

Reporter’s notebook: OPB science reporter Jes Burns shares a strange tale of “crabotage” that emerged as scientists aboard the research vessel Thompson tried to answer complicated questions about the ...