Among the surfers and beach-casting anglers, there’s a new visitor to San Francisco’s Ocean Beach shoreline. Benjamin McInroe is there for only one reason — to find Pacific mole crabs, creatures ...

Sand crabs, a key species in beach ecosystems, were found to have increased adult mortality and decreased reproductive success when exposed to plastic microfibers, according to a new study. Sand crabs ...

Researchers at Nagoya University find a mechanical connection between sand crab burrow widths and widths of cometary pits using a simple granular experiment. Former graduate student, Ayuko Shinoda, ...

Tiny pieces of plastic, many of them shed from synthetic clothing, are nearly ubiquitous in the waters off the Oregon coast, and they are having harmful effects on one species that acts as a ...

I paused during my beach walk to let nature sink in. I had a few free hours before sunset, so I had come to Torrey Pines State Beach for a late afternoon walk in the sand and to let my mind wander. As ...

For the first time, a study led by University of Oxford researchers has listened in to the fascinating courtship displays of fiddler crabs using geophones. The findings, published in the Journal of ...

Among the surfers and beach-casting anglers, there’s a new visitor to San Francisco’s Ocean Beach shoreline. Benjamin McInroe is there for only one reason — to find Pacific mole crabs, creatures ...

Researchers have found a mechanical connection between sand crab burrow widths and widths of cometary pits using a simple granular experiment. Researchers at Nagoya University find a mechanical ...