The Australian government agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), has discovered a new unique species in the Australian deep sea. The species were discovered ...

When the sun sets and the beach quiets, tiny, skittering spectral creatures begin to peek out of their sandy burrows. Locals know and love the ghost crabs, and a favorite pastime of Carolina beach ...

ALTHOUGH many people relax on beaches between Atlantic City and Rio de Janeiro, and although these sandy coasts are densely populated by ghost crabs, meetings of man and ghost are not especially ...

A ghostly white, unusually large predator has been discovered deep inside one of Earth's deepest ocean trenches. Found at a staggering depth of 25,900 feet (7,902 meters) in the eastern Pacific ...

Ghost crabs have teeth in their stomachs that they use to growl at one another with, scientists have discovered. This "unusual" communication system, researchers say, is used during aggressive ...

When it comes to blue crabs, people tend to think of the Chesapeake Bay — but the Chesapeake lags the Gulf of Mexico for sheer production. In the 2015 blue crab season, for instance, the total catch ...

The specter of ghost crab pots looms large beneath the waters of the Delaware Inland Bays. In addition to littering the seafloor, these derelict crab pots — pots that have been lost or abandoned — can ...