The sargassum swimming crab is a remarkable pelagic crustacean that thrives among the drifting mats of seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Though primarily associated with ...

Below the peaceful water, they do not know there is a huge threat coming from the giant crab clan. For some reason, it may be radiation, or it may be from the effects of human waste on their mutations ...

Our friends at See Through Canoe were able to capture an amazing moment as a horseshoe crab was caught on camera swimming. Horseshoe crabs normally swim near the ground but this interesting critter ...

On occasions I am asked to identify my favorite animal. This question usually comes up when I am talking to a group of elementary students and they get into what I term the superlative questions: What ...

Scuba diving in a cave under the reef at 40 feet deep, then looking up at the dark ceiling of the cave right into the psychedelic eyes of a 7-inch wide blue and orange crab is quite exciting! The ...

The horseshoe crab in the amazing YouTube clip captured at Aquaria KLCC in Malaysia appears to have gotten itself in a tricky situation! You normally see them scuttling around the ocean floor, but ...

One would not think that the sight of two swimming crabs (Portunus pelagicus) making whoopie would be an earth-shattering occasion. After all, this is a species that spends a hearty portion of its ...

Sargassum swimming crabs live in floating seaweed in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico (renamed by the U.S. government as Gulf of America). They are camouflaged and small but aggressive ...