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 ...

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

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 ...

Work by researchers at North Carolina State University is leading to a new kind of crab harvest – blue crabs grown and harvested from freshwater ponds, instead of from the sea. Crab lovers shouldn't ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nature Trust - FEE Malta has released the first juvenile freshwater crabs into the wild as part of a project supported by the HSBC Malta Foundation and being carried out in collaboration with the ...

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 ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

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 ...

Two more people have been diagnosed with a rare parasitic infection after eating live freshwater crabs, the Orange County Health Care Agency said Thursday. In all, four diners have been reported ...