They only return to the water on occasion to wet their gills, as they can drown if underwater for too long. These crabs also extract water from wet sand. The fine hairs near the bottoms of their ...

Volunteers have spent five hours removing a 1,300ft-long (400m) abandoned fishing net from Plymouth Sound National Marine Park. The net, which had trapped and killed dozens of fish, seabirds, crabs, ...

FT. MONROE, Va.— Conservation groups today filed a petition asking the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to adopt regulations that would protect diamondback terrapins from drowning in blue crab ...