A crab named for mangrove forests is leaving them behind. New research from William & Mary's Batten School & VIMS shows that ...

The crabs are part of a larger poleward migration of tropical species driven by warming ocean temperatures. While associated with mangroves, the crabs have expanded beyond the trees' new range into ...

A parade of mangroves and now, crabs, are heading north. Atlantic mangrove fiddler crabs have been found nearly 200 miles further from their historic northern limit in Jacksonville, Fla., according to ...

The research underscores growing concerns about how ultra-small plastic particles move through marine ecosystems and into foods people rely on. Researchers studying mangrove forests in Colombia found ...

Microplastics, those teeny, tiny shards of plastic that take more than 400 years to fully decompose, are just about everywhere, and the world's mangrove forests are no exception. Hidden in the tangled ...

It was a beautiful night at Bazemore-Hyder Stadium in Winnersville to wrap up the spring season for Valdosta State football. Press Forward North Florida, an initiative of the Community Foundation of ...

Despite being the size of a Post-It note, these tiny fiddler crabs can ingest and break down microplastic particles, researchers say. Tiny crabs have secretly been playing an “unheralded role” in ...

Tiny crabs have secretly been playing an “unheralded role” in cleaning up the planet by hoovering up microplastics. A new study, published in the journal Global Change Biology, tracked a population of ...

Crabs vs. Plastics: How tiny Fiddler Crabs play a surprising role in reducing microplastics A new study published in the journal Global Change Biology has revealed that tiny fiddler crabs-which grow ...

DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (WKRG) — Video captured by visitors of Dauphin Island shows hundreds of Fiddler crabs in the marshy area. Kim Milstead said she and her family were walking to Pelican Peninsula ...