Maia squinado. It might sound like some exotic Oriental greeting, or perhaps a very itchy skin complaint, but it’s actually the Latin name of one of our most unusual animals, more common at this time ...

Spider crabs have the dual challenge of being delicious and needing to moult, and once a year, this spells trouble.

Summer has arrived on the Seacoast and although it may still seem cool to us it is warming for the Gulf of Maine’s inhabitants. The temperature in the water along Hampton Beach this past weekend was ...

Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. 88, No. 1, Special Feature with Functional Ecology: Eco-evolutionary dynamics across scales (January 2019), pp. 102-113 (12 pages) 1. Nutritional mutualisms are one of ...

The new species of crab spider was discovered in China’s Fujian Province. Photo by Imat Bagja Gumilar on Unsplash Named for their crablike shape and walking patterns that mimic crabs, crab spiders are ...

Tens of thousands of giant spider crabs were captured on video migrating in Port Phillip Bay, Australia. The crab swarm happens every year as the water cools and the creatures "come into the shallows ...

A diver was swimming amid thousands of spider crabs off the coast of Victoria, Australia, when she noticed that one of them was trapped by the leg in a fishing line. Watch the moment this diver ...