Discover how these highly mobile, gear-swapping, team-playing creatures navigate danger and outlive the odds.

Members of the animal kingdom come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. All of these animals have blue eyes.

To survive the deep ocean, sea creatures need all kinds of adaptations that give them alien-like appearances, like huge eyes ...

When an animal hibernates, it goes into a state of sleep or minimal activity. Hibernation allows many animals to survive ...

Hermit crabs are fascinating. Not only do these crustaceans often grow into massive creatures, but they also change shells ...

THERE ARE FEWER CRABS IN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY THIS YEAR, AND PRICES ARE UP. YET CRABS ARE RUNNING OUT THE DOOR AT GOBY SEAFOOD. I GUESS IF YOU WANT THEM, YOU’RE GOING TO PAY FOR THEM. SO THAT’S ...

Could it be the high population of invasive — and hungry — blue catfish gobbling up young crabs? Could it be water pollution depressing the growth of underwater grasses — a critical shelter ...

The best time to see the ancient wonders that are horseshoe crabs is now, as they return to Delaware Bay beaches for spawning season. Horseshoe crabs first developed 540 million years ago in the ...

Once there was a superabundance of horseshoe crabs; armadas of females blanketed the beaches of the Delaware Bayshore. Through the 1990s, New Jersey’s horseshoe crab breeding and coinciding red ...

The Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population has fallen to its second-lowest level since 1990, down 25% from last year, according to an annual study published Thursday. The numbers are alarming ...

Some little crabs with big appetites are getting the attention of Washington’s shellfish industry. Washington has the most productive shellfish farms in the nation. It’s a more than $200 ...