After a year and a half of remote work and learning, UC Santa Barbara undergraduate students Sophia Lecuona Manos, Gabrielle ...
The Chesapeake Bay’s crabs are tearing themselves apart. A decades-long study of the blue crabs living along the Maryland ...
A 37-year study in the Chesapeake Bay revealed that a major predator of young blue crabs might be their own kind ...
The findings by Smithsonian researchers could help experts better manage this crustacean's population. The creatures play ...
It’s a crab-eat-crab world for the Chesapeake Bay’s juvenile blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus). Literally. Cannibalism is the ...
Young blue crabs face their biggest threat from their own kind, but shallow water can provide a crucial refuge from cannibalism.
In an impressive 37-year-long investigation confirmed that the top—practically only—cause of death for young blue crabs was ...
Researchers have published a nearly 40-year study documenting just how prevalent cannibalism is in the Chesapeake Bay’s blue ...
Smithsonian study finds juvenile crabs rely on shrinking shallow-water habitats to escape cannibalism by adults ...
The researchers found that the smallest crabs were the most vulnerable, and more than twice as likely to get eaten compared to medium or large juveniles.
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Cannibal crabs devour juveniles: 37-year study shocker
A groundbreaking 37-year study from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center reveals that cannibalism by adult blue ...
This video examines island animals that evolved in isolated environments with little competition or predation. When placed in mainland ecosystems, these same traits can make them highly disruptive.
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