When a team of scientists studying the brightly colored and common New Guinea crayfish ordered some new animals for their lab, they were in for a bit of a surprise. They uncovered a species of the ...

The researchers detailed their discovery in the journal Zootaxa last week. Though crayfish—also called crawdads or crawfish—may not be everyone’s idea of the perfect animal companion ...

The UK's only native species has been under threat from the invasive American signal crayfish, which competes for food and carries disease, for decades. The 12ft-long (3.65m) crayfish sculpture at ...

A man from a Nottinghamshire village has appeared in court after setting up eight illegal crayfish traps on the River Derwent. Armands Rukmanis, of Rawson Street, Selston, pleaded guilty at Derby ...

Commercial trapping of crayfish for human consumption is not permitted, because it can cause the spread of disease (known as the crayfish plague) from invasive signal crayfish to native white claw ...