SARASOTA, Fla. - A small-scale release of hatchery-raised Caribbean king crabs happened on Tuesday at a coral restoration site in the lower Florida Keys. Caribbean king crabs are known as powerful ...

Florida's Coral Reef has been in decline for 75 years. The state's waters house the third-largest barrier reef system in the world, but has lost more than 90% of its live coral over the years because ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — Researchers with Mote Marine Laboratory have released hatchery-raised Caribbean king crabs onto Florida’s Coral Reef for the first time. It is part of an ongoing effort to ...

For certain vulnerable corals, help is in the claws of a crab. Reporting in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, researchers found that a species of branching coral benefitted from ...

Small, hidden crabs may be the missing link influencing coral-eating starfish populations, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. While we know crown-of ...

Gall crabs are tiny and yet these crustaceans have evolved fluorescence to help them be concealed within hideouts they have created in the coral itself [1]. “These crabs are everywhere,” says Susanne ...

Coral reefs, those vibrant underwater cities, stand on the precipice of collapse. While rising ocean temperatures and coral bleaching grab headlines, a new essay in Current Biology reveals a hidden ...

Moat Marine Laboratory releases hatchery-raised Caribbean king crabs onto Florida's coral reef to control algae and aid in reef restoration. Scientists plan to release 35,000 crabs in the coming years ...