Juan Mateo Rivera looking for crabs in a stream in Assis, Acre State, Brazil in 2022. In Manizales, perched in the Colombian Andes, researchers are studying how a native species of small fresh-water ...

ALTHOUGH many people are familiar with the local snake catcher on The Bluff, Warren Dick, not many know that he responds to distress calls for other animals too. “The other day I received a call from ...

Thiruvananthapuram: A new genus of freshwater crab has been discovered from two habitats in Kerala with least human intervention. According to the scientists who discovered the genus ‘Karkata’, which ...

It was in February that Vi Dung came to know about the new trend of having colorful freshwater crabs as pets. The 23-year-old long time aquarist from the northern province of Lao Cai discovered this ...

Nature Trust - FEE Malta has released the first juvenile freshwater crabs into the wild as part of a project supported by the HSBC Malta Foundation and being carried out in collaboration with the ...

Work by researchers at North Carolina State University is leading to a new kind of crab harvest – blue crabs grown and harvested from freshwater ponds, instead of from the sea. Crab lovers shouldn't ...

After two Orange County residents came down with a rare lung infection, public health officials are warning Californians against eating raw or undercooked freshwater sawagani crabs. The imported crabs ...

Scientists discover a new freshwater crab genus, Patithelphusa, in Yercaud, emphasizing the ecological importance of the Eastern Ghats.

Water species such as fish, ghongi (freshwater snails), crabs and sutahi (mussels) are becoming increasingly rare in the fields, rivers, streams, and wetlands of the region.Baliram Tharu, 60, from ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of food eaten by ancient Maya elites during special ritual banquets. Researchers from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have ...

After two Orange County residents came down with a rare lung infection, public health officials warned Californians against eating raw or undercooked freshwater sawagani crabs. The imported crabs have ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A critique of Bǎnǎrescu's (1990) ideas and hypotheses regarding the importance of freshwater crabs in zoogeography is presented. We contend ...