Each summer for nearly four decades, scientists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center have tethered some baby blue crabs along a Chesapeake Bay tributary. Then they watched, hoping to learn ...

Smithsonian researchers discovered who devours the most young blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay — it’s not people or even fish, but older, larger blue crabs with a surprising taste for cannibalism. And ...

TANGIER, Va. (AP) — An unusual crab has been pulled from the Chesapeake Bay. The blue crab has two oysters growing on either side of her head near her eyes. The crab is estimated to be about 2 years ...

The Chesapeake Bay’s crabs are tearing themselves apart. A decades-long study of the blue crabs living along the Maryland coast suggests that cannibalism is so rife that the crabs are their own major ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An adult male blue crab attempts to cannibalize a smaller blue crab on a tether. The lives of blue crabs are anything but boring.

In an impressive 37-year-long investigation confirmed that the top—practically only—cause of death for young blue crabs was older crabs from their own species. Reading time 3 minutes Here are two ...