A new global study reveals that nearly one in four freshwater animal species is at high risk of extinction, scientists warn.

After two Orange County residents came down with a rare lung infection, public health officials are warning Californians against eating raw or undercooked freshwater sawagani crabs. The imported crabs ...

Filled with live plants, substrates, and glimmering schools of fish, a perfectly curated aquarium is an awe-inspiring art form. But the best aquarium pets that aren’t fish prove that our finned ...

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 ...

It was in February that Vi Dung came to know about the new trend of having colorful freshwater crabs as pets. The 23-year-old long time aquarist from the northern province of Lao Cai discovered this ...

Thiruvananthapuram: A new genus of freshwater crab has been discovered from two habitats in Kerala with least human intervention. According to the scientists who discovered the genus ‘Karkata’, which ...

A recent collection of freshwater crabs of the family Potamonautidae from central Angola included two species of Potamonautes MacLeay, 1838, P. anchietae (Brito-Capello, 1871), and P. kensleyi, new ...

ALTHOUGH many people are familiar with the local snake catcher on The Bluff, Warren Dick, not many know that he responds to distress calls for other animals too. “The other day I received a call from ...

Pollution and habitat loss are wiping out the freshwater crab, one of the essential guardians of the world's river systems, according to researchers from the Zoological Society of London. 27 July 2009 ...