There’s only one freshwater hermit crab, Clibanarius fonticola, which is native to Vanuatu. Hermit crabs are omnivorous scavengers, eating microscopic mussels and clams, bits of dead animals ...

On Sept. 15, a driver in Brooklyn was stopped by the New York Police Department after running a red light. In an unexpected turn of events, the officers found 29 Chinese mitten crabs, a crustacean ...

These giant freshwater crabs might just be your new ... Now, predators like seagulls and crows have breached the crabs' habitats. Seminara told National Geographic that these days, he finds ...

The Cape Fear region offers a variety of landscapes: maritime forests, freshwater ponds and springs, briny marshes, and of ...