Anyone who has dug their toes or fingers into the wet sand at the water's edge has no doubt unearthed a sand crab, a.k.a. sand flea or sand mole These small armadillo-shaped critters are usually no ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 Portland State ...

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 ...