Juan Mateo Rivera looking for crabs in a stream in Assis, Acre State, Brazil in 2022. In Manizales, perched in the Colombian Andes, researchers are studying how a native species of small fresh-water ...

ALTHOUGH many people are familiar with the local snake catcher on The Bluff, Warren Dick, not many know that he responds to distress calls for other animals too. “The other day I received a call from ...

Scientists discover a new freshwater crab genus, Patithelphusa, in Yercaud, emphasizing the ecological importance of the Eastern Ghats.

Work by researchers at North Carolina State University is leading to a new kind of crab harvest – blue crabs grown and harvested from freshwater ponds, instead of from the sea. Crab lovers shouldn't ...

It was in February that Vi Dung came to know about the new trend of having colorful freshwater crabs as pets. The 23-year-old long time aquarist from the northern province of Lao Cai discovered this ...

Thiruvananthapuram: A new genus of freshwater crab has been discovered from two habitats in Kerala with least human intervention. According to the scientists who discovered the genus ‘Karkata’, which ...

Nature Trust - FEE Malta has released the first juvenile freshwater crabs into the wild as part of a project supported by the HSBC Malta Foundation and being carried out in collaboration with the ...

After two Orange County residents came down with a rare lung infection, public health officials are warning Californians against eating raw or undercooked freshwater sawagani crabs. The imported crabs ...

In the highlands of Luzon in the Philippines, a new species was discovered by a surgeon on a trip, researchers said. AR via Unsplash Robert L. Chang, a colorectal surgeon from Manila, has taken many ...

After two Orange County residents came down with a rare lung infection, public health officials warned Californians against eating raw or undercooked freshwater sawagani crabs. The imported crabs have ...

Two more people have been diagnosed with a rare parasitic infection after eating live freshwater crabs, the Orange County Health Care Agency said Thursday. In all, four diners have been reported ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A critique of Bǎnǎrescu's (1990) ideas and hypotheses regarding the importance of freshwater crabs in zoogeography is presented. We contend ...