Marylanders and visitors love the blue crab as a seafood delicacy, but they chose it as the state crustacean for more than that. It’s a species that reflects the working life, history, and ecology of ...

Crustaceans occupy a wide range of environments while relying on surprisingly optimized survival strategies. Their success ...

Decapod crustaceans represent one of the most diverse and ecologically significant groups of marine and freshwater organisms. Their evolutionary history, documented by an abundant fossil record, ...

A new bill introduced Friday would designate Dungeness crab as California’s state crustacean. Introduced by Assemblymember Jim Wood with North Coast State Sen. Mike McGuire as the principal co-author, ...