Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Green crabs threaten West Coast ecosystems, livelihood and tribal traditions European green crabs, an invasive species first ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The horseshoe crab has been scuttling in the ocean and tidal pools for more than 400 million years, playing a vital role in the East Coast ecosystem along with being a prized ...

PORTLAND, Maine — A primordial sea animal that lives on the tidal mudflats of the East Coast and serves as a linchpin for the production of vital medicines stands to benefit from new protective ...

The research underscores growing concerns about how ultra-small plastic particles move through marine ecosystems and into foods people rely on.

Sea otters are some of the cutest animals in the world. We are journalists, and we deal in facts, so I have to allow that this is not exactly a quantifiable statement. But what is a fact is that ...

Domenico Rossi, a fisherman from Torcello, an island near Venice, was 6 years old when he first went fishing with his dad. “I loved everything about it,” he says. “The long days out on the water, the ...

Where have all the Chesapeake Bay blue crabs gone? That’s what researchers are asking in the region — and so too may be diners. With crab season underway, an annual survey of Bay crabs shows the crab ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks to researcher Rikke Jeppesen about her work on how sea otters, which were hunted to almost near extinction, have been able to thrive by eating up to 120,000 crabs a year.