The remote South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic are a perfect place to find new and rarely seen species, and a Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition in the region is finding many of those species ...

When water temperatures rise to 60 degrees and level off after the last cold snaps of winter, the coastline welcomes ...

A Real Bug’s Life returns for another season of microscopic and dynamic worlds. This new season of the National Geographic series follows new creatures ranging from a hermit crab looking for its ...

This month, try a "pop-tart" with Cuban flair, a Spanish take on deviled crab, casual fried seafood and sweet-savory meatballs.

Flower spiders, also known as crab spiders, change colours to match the flowers they rest on by reflecting light, making them nearly invisible to unsuspecting insects.

Horseshoe crabs weren’t distant cousins of arachnids -- many parts of their DNA matched that of hooded tickspiders and camel spiders, which means rather than cousins, they are arachnids!

So crab-shaped animals have more evolutionary fitness ... Some animals move with the help of their environment -- spiders cartwheel down sand dunes, and Velella velella, a jellyfish-like colony ...

An Australian zoo has put out an unusual but urgent appeal for public donations of funnel-web spiders, one of the world’s most venomous arachnids. The Australian Reptile Park on Feb 25 called ...

REFUGE/DDWS Betty Bishop Wildlife on Wheels intern Bhritney Hernandez facilitates the spider crab activity at STEM Night at Lehigh Elementary School in Fort Myers. The J.N. “Ding” Darling National ...

5. The spider buries itself in the sand and waits for prey to come within range before attacking. 6. It is also known as a crab spider due to its flattened stance. The scientific name for this spider ...

However, recent phylogenomic studies challenge this view, indicating that horseshoe crabs are nested within ... have been identified in spiders and scorpions and may have contributed to the ...

What looks like a spider but isn’t one, lives underwater and breathes through its legs? That would be the mysterious sea spider. With over 1,300 species living in every ocean, these marine arthropods ...