Movie"You'd be a baka uma to eat these monsters!! Squid, octopus and crab monsters turn the National Stadium into a seafood bowl!!" ...

Fresh crabs should feel heavy for their size. You can buy a crab live and boil it yourself; alternatively, ask your fishmonger to kill it for you, or buy it ready-cooked. If buying cooked crabmeat ...

A monster box crab measuring over nine feet has been hauled up in the fishing nets of a Kerry trawler. Normally found in the depths of the Porcupine Bank, the spider-like creature is thought to ...

Crab apples fall into two camps – the native British ones that are found in country hedgerows and the pretty little ornamental ones that are often found in gardens and parks. Both mature in the ...

What is a hermit crab? There are over 800 species of hermit crabs worldwide, and almost all are ocean dwellers—though people are likely most familiar with the dozen semi-terrestrial species ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

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Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. Chaos ensued on a subway train after a passenger's bag full of live crabs broke open, resulting in the arthropods tumbling out. The woman can be seen ...

No, it's not science fiction, just plain old science. We're talking about the horseshoe crab. For decades we've needed them, and their blood, to help us discover human medicines. They're being ...

Most fossils of the extinct creatures have no heads, but researchers analyzed complete fossils of juveniles and were able to ...