It was in February that Vi Dung came to know about the new trend of having colorful freshwater crabs as pets. The 23-year-old long time aquarist from the northern province of Lao Cai discovered this ...

Filled with live plants, substrates, and glimmering schools of fish, a perfectly curated aquarium is an awe-inspiring art form. But the best aquarium pets that aren’t fish prove that our finned ...

Juan Mateo Rivera looking for crabs in a stream in Assis, Acre State, Brazil in 2022. In Manizales, perched in the Colombian Andes, researchers are studying how a native species of small fresh-water ...

Biologist are working to grow and harvest blue crabs from freshwater ponds, instead of from the sea. Work by researchers at North Carolina State University is leading to a new kind of crab harvest – ...

Thiruvananthapuram: A new genus of freshwater crab has been discovered from two habitats in Kerala with least human intervention. According to the scientists who discovered the genus ‘Karkata’, which ...

Pollution and habitat loss are wiping out the freshwater crab, one of the essential guardians of the world's river systems, according to researchers from the Zoological Society of London. 27 July 2009 ...