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 – ...

How threatened are different freshwater animals? While around 10% of all species depend on freshwater, the study was particularly concerned with four groups that are intimately linked to it—the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of food eaten by ancient Maya elites during special ritual banquets. Researchers from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have ...

A sixth of all the world’s freshwater crab species are now threatened with extinction, according to experts. The scavenging creatures help to keep tropical aquatic ecosystems healthy, recy­cling ...

A new freshwater crab species, Ghatiana dhritiarum, has been discovered in the central Western Ghats of Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A critique of Bǎnǎrescu's (1990) ideas and hypotheses regarding the importance of freshwater crabs in zoogeography is presented. We contend ...