Q. We saw a bunch of baby crabs in the mud along the sound. They were brown and ran off as we approached. What were they? A. These busy little crustaceans are fiddler crabs and are easily spotted at ...

Video captured by visitors of Dauphin Island shows hundreds of Fiddler crabs in the marshy area. Kim Milstead said she and ...

The fiddler crab is one of the most entertaining — and ecologically important — residents of our shoreline, Jace Tunnell ...

Male banana fiddler crabs take courting to a new, and pushy, level: The little Australian crab males wait for females to enter their burrows and then trap them in order to mate, scientists have found.

As Earth warms, species around the world—Adélie penguins, earthworms, gray snapper, pin oaks—are shifting into habitats once too cold for them. One such “climate migrant” is the Atlantic mud fiddler ...

NPR science podcast Short Wave brings us the stories of how Fiddler crabs drum their mating songs into the sand, growing chicken nuggets in the lab, and a drug like LSD — without the trip. It's time ...