Male fiddler crabs are lopsided, with one claw that seems about the right size and one very large claw. As you might expect, one function of the larger claw is to attract females. The males drum with ...
A decade ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great Marsh, a salt marsh an hour north of Boston, and pulled a thumb-sized crab with an absurdly large claw out of a burrow. I was looking at a fiddler ...
A parade of mangroves and now, crabs, are heading north. Atlantic mangrove fiddler crabs have been found nearly 200 miles further from their historic northern limit in Jacksonville, Fla., according to ...
A fiddler crab is a crab species from the genus Uca. They are native to brackish environments, which are made of part freshwater and part saltwater, all over the world. Fiddler crabs get their name ...
The research underscores growing concerns about how ultra-small plastic particles move through marine ecosystems and into foods people rely on. Researchers studying mangrove forests in Colombia found ...
The fiddler crabs can be seen performing their instinctual choreography through the summer ...
The crabs are part of a larger poleward migration of tropical species driven by warming ocean temperatures. While associated with mangroves, the crabs have expanded beyond the trees' new range into ...