After a year and a half of remote work and learning, UC Santa Barbara undergraduate students Sophia Lecuona Manos, Gabrielle ...

Smithsonian researchers discovered who eats the most young blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay – it’s not people, or even fish, ...

By Katherine Hafner/WHRO Each summer for nearly four decades, scientists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center ...

Young blue crabs face their biggest threat from their own kind, but shallow water can provide a crucial refuge from cannibalism.

A 37-year study in the Chesapeake Bay revealed that a major predator of young blue crabs might be their own kind ...

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.

Researchers have published a nearly 40-year study documenting just how prevalent cannibalism is in the Chesapeake Bay’s blue ...