BALTIMORE — At summertime backyard feasts, crab shells are just a barrier between hunger and satisfaction. Marylanders smash the crustaceans’ protective casings with wooden mallets, pick out the tasty ...

It’s a most magical time of year, early spring, when Mother Nature begins waking up all around us. We can see it in early crops like asparagus and strawberries, and in seafood markets with plump ...

Hermit crabs (Paguroidea; Latreille 1802) offer great opportunities to study animal behaviour and physiology. However, the animals’ size and sex cannot be determined when they are inside their shell; ...

Extracting the delicate meat from crab legs is something of a Herculean task. Different means of poking and prodding, cutting and cracking offer pros and cons, but most techniques end up tearing or ...