Researchers have found crabs are key predators of juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish and could be a hidden link to what ...

Small, hidden crabs may be the missing link influencing coral-eating starfish populations, according to a study published in ...

Small, hidden crabs may be the missing link influencing coral-eating starfish populations, according to a study published in ...

Crab behavior suggestive of wound-tending may improve coral tolerance to heat waves. For certain vulnerable corals, help is in the claws of a crab. Reporting in Proceedings Biological Sciences ...

Reporting in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, researchers found that a species of branching coral benefitted from a reef-dwelling crab, especially when the coral was heat ...

Researchers reporting in Proceedings Biological Sciences have discovered that the branching coral Acropora aspera benefits from the presence of the reef-dwelling crab Cyclodius ungulatus ...

Researchers believe the creature could be crucial in efforts to help protect the great natural Australian asset.

Due to food and habitat abundance, they mostly inhabit such environments that are filtered around coral reef zones at the seafloor. Other species, like the golden king crab, are in deeper settings ...

The artificial oyster reef being built near the Carolina Beach State Park is designed to not only help grow the oyster ...

One of the projects the Mesoamerican Reef Fund supports focuses on raising juvenile king crabs and releasing them onto reefs to combat the overgrowth of macroalgae, which thrives due to rising ocean ...

The exhaustive research has been conducted as part of the Nippon Foundation Nekton Ocean Census. Launched in April 2023, the ...