How Is Soft-Shell Crab Different From Regular Crab? Many people looking for a guide to soft-shell crab and unfamiliar with the food assume it is a species of crab. However, soft-shell is not an actual ...

When a nondescript, brownish crab was hand-caught in the Willamette River in November 2025, it raised the alarm at the Oregon ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Environmental experts are concerned after an invasive species was spotted in Oregon for a second time this year. The Chinese mitten crab is a non-native species that lives in ...

When the spring high tides strike, tens of thousands of horseshoe crabs descend on the Delaware Bay to spawn. (Steph Yin/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Chinese mitten crab, a prohibited invasive species in Oregon, was recently found in the Willamette River near the Sellwood Bridge. The crab was spotted in shallow water and captured ...

A highly invasive species of crab — capable of climbing over 13-foot-high concrete structures — has been spotted in the Pacific Northwest for the first time, wildlife officials said. A commercial ...

KITSAP COUNTY, Wash — Volunteers captured a male European green crab near Seabeck in Kitsap County, marking the first time the invasive species has been found in the Hood Canal, the Washington ...

Get into the festive holiday spirit with a critter that goes all out when decking its halls out: the graceful decorator crab.

MONTEREY, Calif. (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. Thinning their ...

The European green crab, a highly invasive species that has disrupted shellfish harvests and ecosystems worldwide, has been detected for the first time in Skagit Bay, officials said Monday. The ...