Learn more about the courtship songs of male fiddler crabs, which communicate important information about their size and their fitness as mates.

A study has 'listened in' to the fascinating courtship displays of Fiddler crabs using geophones. The findings provide new insights into how the animals communicate effectively on the noisy seashore.

The male European fiddler crab attracts his mate by performing a courtship dance. New research published in the Journal of ...

The crab is semi-terrestrial but well-adapted to life on land. When the tide goes out, they leave their burrows in the sand to hunt for clams and small crabs, especially at night. They only return ...

What are they? KWONG: How fiddler crabs drum their flirty mating songs into the sand. CHANG: Ooh. CARLSON: How to grow chicken nuggets in the lab. CHANG: OK. KWONG: And a drug like LSD without the ...

PSU researcher Dorothy Horn examined the effects of exposure to microfibers on adult mortality, reproductive output and embryonic development of the sand crab. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

Crunching along the rocky beach Tuesday, Easton pointed out a host of brightly colored starfish, squishy anemones, sand dollars, snails, crabs, worms, algae and horse clams that spit water several ...

For the first time, a study led by University of Oxford researchers has listened in to the fascinating courtship displays of fiddler crabs using geophones. The findings, published in the Journal ...