While most of the country longs for warm, comforting soups as November approaches, South Florida residents tend to crave something a little more... crustacean. We’re talking about Florida stone crab ...

Tierney Plumb is an editor of Eater’s Northeast region, covering D.C., Boston, Philly, and New York. After COVID-19 vaccines became widely available and D.C. lifted indoor dining restrictions, seafood ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) in Sussex County, ...

The traps have been baited, set and left to soak for more than a week. Friday morning, in the pre-dawn darkness, crabbers around the state will pull up their first stone crabs of the season. "If it ...

While the coronavirus pandemic shuttered restaurants and battered the Mid-Atlantic crab industry last year, 2021 has brought more bad news: skyrocketing prices due to a severe shortage of blue crabs ...

Delmarva consumers and businesses may pay higher prices for crabs this summer due to overall shortages as outlined in the 2021 Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Advisory Report. The final draft of the study ...

On a moonlit spring night on Cape Cod, female horseshoe crabs reenact a ritual that has persisted for over 450 million years. Within half an hour each female has laid several clutches of 4,000 eggs ...

It’s one of the stranger, lesser-known aspects of U.S. health care — the striking, milky-blue blood of horseshoe crabs is a critical component of tests to ensure injectable medications such as ...

Researchers have discovered the oldest known modern crab — trapped in amber since the time of the dinosaurs. The 100-million-year-old fossil of the crab, Cretapsara athanata, comes from Myanmar, in ...

Scientists have linked the disappearance of 10 billion Bering Sea snow crabs to a climate phenomenon that caused an unprecedented mass starvation event among the species. The study revealed that ...

The traps have been baited, set and left to soak for more than a week. Friday morning, in the pre-dawn darkness, crabbers around the state will pull up their first stone crabs of the season. "If it ...