Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

A strange kind of “art show” appears with every low tide — only to vanish just a few hours later. The artists? Sand bubbler ...

The study also points to environmental conditions as another factor behind the evolutionary success of crabs. The researchers ...

Nobody expected it to be THAT fast!

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Carcinization is the separate, five-time evolution of crabs. Parallel evolution isn’t unheard of by any means, but crabs have done it a lot. Their ...

The Sally Lightfoot crab is one of the quickest species on the planet, and can even jump! Read here to learn why they jump ...

If you have ever looked closely into a rockpool along the U.K. coastline, you may have been lucky enough to find a tiny hermit crab scuttling about. What you might not realize is that hermit crabs are ...

Crabs can feel pain when they are boiled alive during conventional food preparation —- as do other shellfish like lobsters, according to a new study.Zoologists from Sweden’s University of Gothenburg ...

AND ASK FOR GOOSE. WELL, GOOSE NEEDS A NEW BALL NOW TOO. ALL RIGHT, HOW ABOUT ENJOYING A GOOD MEAL WHILE HELPING ANIMALS IN NEED? THE WILTON ANIMAL RESCUE IS HOSTING ITS FIRST CRAB FEED NEXT MONTH.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Animals can evolve separately but end up evolving toward other species, too, or even spontaneously evolve the same characteristics in totally ...