California's Dungeness crab industry is under increasing regulation because of concerns over whales getting entangled in ...

The Bering Sea snow crab fishery reopened in mid-October, after billions of the crab disappeared and the fishery was shut ...

An invasive species had taken over ecosystems across the West Coast and was threatening to dominate another one in Monterey County, California, when ecologist Rikke Jeppesen began her research two ...

Small, fertile, rugged and fueled by an expansive appetite, the species, he says, is “an exemplary invader, a perfect invader ...

As ecosystems around the planet undergo rapid transformations, policymakers and land managers are grappling with a pressing question: When is it time to stop resisting ecological changes and accept a ...

As invasive green crabs wreak havoc on California's estuaries, a new study has found that a restored sea otter population might be the solution. Yes, says ecologist Rikke Jeppesen, whose team at ...

MONTEREY, California (KGO) — When we first met the hungry otters of Elkhorn Slough last year, they were chowing down on a species of burrowing crabs blamed for destabilizing the shoreline.

Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography descended thousands of meters where they likely discovered dozens of new animal species. Creatures flourish where methane gas seeps into the ocean ...

Portsmouth scientists have discovered that a species of crab - named after US actor David Hasselhoff because of its hairy belly - has different claw characteristics for males and females ...

So she and her colleagues began mapping the slough. Pinpointing the location of sea otter populations, versus green crabs. Research coordinator Kerstin Wasson, Ph.D., says the modeling seems to ...