Microplastics, those teeny, tiny shards of plastic that take more than 400 years to fully decompose, are just about everywhere, and the world's mangrove forests are no exception. Hidden in the tangled ...

The research underscores growing concerns about how ultra-small plastic particles move through marine ecosystems and into foods people rely on. Researchers studying mangrove forests in Colombia found ...

STEINHATCHEE, Fla. (WCTV) - The excitement is building in Steinhatchee as the Fiddler Crab Festival kicked off Thursday. For the small town of Steinhatchee, the event is a big deal. Taylor County ...

On Saturday, Florida A&M baseball defeated Villanova 6-5 to guarantee the series win after a win on Friday. The Rattlers lost on Sunday 4-1 to drop their overall record to 5-10. On Saturday morning, ...

The Atlantic hairback fiddler crab, minuca vocator, is a semi-terrestrial crab that inhabits coastal areas of South America. As with other crabs of this type, the male has an oversized claw, which it ...

Tiny crabs have secretly been playing an “unheralded role” in cleaning up the planet by hoovering up microplastics. A new study, published in the journal Global Change Biology, tracked a population of ...

Crabs vs. Plastics: How tiny Fiddler Crabs play a surprising role in reducing microplastics A new study published in the journal Global Change Biology has revealed that tiny fiddler crabs-which grow ...

DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (WKRG) — Video captured by visitors of Dauphin Island shows hundreds of Fiddler crabs in the marshy area. Kim Milstead said she and her family were walking to Pelican Peninsula ...

While cruising the Texas coast this week during my Beachcombing survey, I came across one of the most entertaining — and ecologically important — residents of our shoreline: the fiddler crab. Easily ...

A potentially invasive crab species has landed in coastal South Carolina, from Hilton Head, though the Charleston area and up to Myrtle Beach. State regulators are asking the public to report ...

Blue land crabs are edible and are a food source in the Bahamas and the Caribbean. In Florida, harvesting blue land crabs is prohibited from July 1 through Oct. 31. Blue land crabs can be caught by ...

Scientists apparently underestimated the aggression of itty-bitty male fiddler crabs when they deployed a friendly robot version during mating season. In a paper published in the journal Proceedings ...