A parade of mangroves and now, crabs, are heading north. Atlantic mangrove fiddler crabs have been found nearly 200 miles further from their historic northern limit in Jacksonville, Fla., according to ...

BEAUFORT — One of South Carolina’s newest climate migrants has claws. A new study in the Journal of Crustacean Biology has found that the Atlantic mangrove fiddler crab has expanded it’s range north ...

While cruising the Texas coast this week during my Beachcombing survey, I came across one of the most entertaining — and ecologically important — residents of our shoreline: the fiddler crab. Easily ...

Jennions, Michael D., Backwell, Patricia R. Y., Murai, Minoru, and Christy, John H. 2003. "Hiding Behaviour in Fiddler Crabs: How Long Should Prey Hide in Response to a Potential Predator?" Animal ...

A robot crab has helped scientists understand how male fiddler crabs compete over females. Male fiddler crabs have one oversized claw, and they attract females by standing outside their burrow and ...

The crabs are part of a larger poleward migration of tropical species driven by warming ocean temperatures. While associated with mangroves, the crabs have expanded beyond the trees' new range into ...