She was the blue crab that would be the foundation of a breakthrough scientific discovery: the first map of the species’s DNA. Through a process known as genome sequencing, the scientists ...

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.

recreational fishermen have been banned from catching blue crabs between sunset and sunrise. It’s not entirely clear why — and no such restrictions exist in neighboring Connecticut and ...