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Decline of shorebird linked to bait use of horseshoe crabs

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created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Declining numbers of a shorebird called the red knot have been linked to bait use of horseshoe crabs.


Turning freshwater farm ponds into crab farms

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created Oct 09, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Work by researchers at North Carolina State University is leading to a new kind of crab harvest – blue crabs grown and harvested from freshwater ponds, instead of from the sea.


Researchers Turning Freshwater Farm Ponds into Crab Farms

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 30, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Work by researchers at North Carolina State University is leading to a new kind of crab harvest – blue crabs grown and harvested from freshwater ponds, instead of from the sea.


The Crab Nebula: A Cosmic Icon

The Crab Nebula: Energy for 100,000 Suns

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A star's spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D.


Blue crab research funds slashed

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 08, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The federal government cut a $4 million fund to increase blue crabs in Chesapeake Bay, sending Baltimore researchers scrambling to continue the program.


Regulators allow horseshoe crab harvest

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created Feb 12, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The New Jersey Marine Fisheries Council has declined to extend a moratorium on horseshoe crab harvesting aimed at protecting migrating shore birds.


Crab claws pack strengthening bromide-rich biomaterial

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created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Next time you have an unlucky encounter with a crab's pinchers, consider that the claw tips may be reinforced with bromine-rich biomaterial 1.5 times harder than acrylic glass and extremely fracture resistant, says a University ...


Caught in a trap: bumblebees vs. robotic crab spiders

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created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Bumblebees learn to avoid camouflaged predators by sacrificing foraging speed for predator detection, according to scientists from Queen Mary, University of London.


King crab family bigger than ever

King crab family bigger than ever

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Sally Hall, a PhD student at the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) has formally described four new species of king ...


Rhithropanopeus harrisii

Smithsonian identifies invasive crab species in Panama Canal expansion area

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created Sep 19, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Smithsonian scientist and colleague report that a potentially harmful, invasive crab species that has spread to several countries is now established and reproducing in Panama. The researchers report that ...


Furry-clawed Asian crabs found in Delaware and Chesapeake Bays

Furry-clawed Asian crabs found in Delaware and Chesapeake Bays

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created Jun 04, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Chinese mitten crabs, first reported in the Chesapeake Bay, are more widespread than initially thought. Four crabs have now been caught in Delaware Bay during the last week of May 2007, and may occur in other ...


Integral locates origin of high-energy emission from Crab Nebula

Integral locates origin of high-energy emission from Crab Nebula

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 29, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to data from ESA's Integral gamma-ray observatory, scientists have been able to locate where particles in the vicinity of the rotating neutron-star in the Crab Nebula are accelerated ...


Crab nabbed; circumstances fishy

Crab nabbed; circumstances fishy

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 10, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

MIT researchers have confirmed the first sighting of a Dungeness crab in the Atlantic Ocean. The male, whose species is common on North America's West Coast, was caught off Thatcher Island, Massachusetts, on ...


Research could boost coastal economics with crustacean molting on demand

Research could boost coastal economics with crustacean molting on demand (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers are close to unraveling intricate cellular pathways that control molting in blue crabs. The discoveries could revolutionize the soft-shell crab industry, generating ...


Can Dungeness crab and eelgrass help improve management of our marine resources?

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created Feb 16, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NOAA's Anne Guerry will discuss the benefits people obtain from ecosystems in managing marine resources in her AAAS presentation "Ecosystem Services Provided by the Nearshore in Puget Sound: An Analysis of Change." Puget ...