European green crabs are small, measuring just four inches across. But since they were first introduced in the 1980s, these ...

West Coast states are spending millions to protect their inland waterways from invasive crabs. In Monterey County, otters are ...

In California, southern sea otters have become unexpected defenders against invasive green crabs, which were originally ...

At Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, a newly-reinvigorated population of native southern sea otters has eaten so many invasive European green crabs that researchers say the ...

Southern sea otters were nearly hunted to extinction in the 19th century for their furs, only gaining a measure of protection ...

Researchers believe otters could be a potential solution for controlling an invasive green crab species that's invaded ecosystems up and down the West Coast.

But at California’s Elkhorn Slough, a reserve where about 120 southern sea otters live, the cute apex predators have led to green crabs’ demise by eating up to 120,000 of the invasive species ...

YORK, Maine — In his days as a York High School marine science teacher, Mike Masi would educate his students about green crabs and other invasive species in the Gulf of Maine. Nowadays ...

At Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, a newly-reinvigorated population of native southern sea otters has eaten so many invasive European green crabs that researchers say the ...