Generally, blue, snow, and Dungeness crabs have a similar salty-sweet flavor, but differences in taste will occur based on ...

A pair of researchers, one a paleoecologist with Utrecht University, the other an independent ancient crab enthusiast, have identified the largest known crab fossil claw ever discovered.

They’re also one of the world’s largest arthropods, animals with no backbone, external skeletons, and multiple-jointed appendages. In this crab’s case, those appendages are its 10 legs.

Among the first to set traps on April 10 will be harvesters in 3LNO, the most lucrative crab fishing zone in the eastern ...