Juan Mateo Rivera looking for crabs in a stream in Assis, Acre State, Brazil in 2022. In Manizales, perched in the Colombian Andes, researchers are studying how a native species of small fresh-water ...
Freshwater aeglid crabs, belonging to the single genus Aegla, represent a unique and diverse group endemic to southern South America. These crabs inhabit a variety of freshwater systems—from streams ...
Only the truest of crabs move sideways. (Paul Starosta/Stone/Getty Images) As you may have heard via a barrage of internet ...
Biologist are working to grow and harvest blue crabs from freshwater ponds, instead of from the sea. Work by researchers at North Carolina State University is leading to a new kind of crab harvest – ...
A sixth of all the world’s freshwater crab species are now threatened with extinction, according to experts. The scavenging creatures help to keep tropical aquatic ecosystems healthy, recy­cling ...