MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. — State marine biologists are asking people along the North Carolina coast to keep an eye out for a large ...

An invasive land crab species has been sighted and state environment officials are asking the public to report any more.

The North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries is asking residents to report sightings of blue land crabs, a nonnative ...

If you spot the non-native species, which looks like enormous fiddler crabs, snap a photo and report the date and location to ...

The NC Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Marine Fisheries is reminding people to please report any sightings ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Dr. David Johnson, an ecologist at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science, has spent more than 20 years in salt marshes, at sites all along the U.S. East and Gulf coasts. But while ...

That means you might start to spot blue land crabs around this time of year as the female crabs venture out to sea to release their eggs, a time period called spawning season that lasts from June to ...

Georgia officials recently asked for the public's help in spotting non-native blue land crabs. But further down the coast in Florida, officials are accustomed to the spiny ocean crawlers. That's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Male fiddler crabs are small, with one oversized claw. David S. Johnson A decade ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great ...