From a fishing trawler in the Adriatic, Italian scientists gently release thousands of tiny octopuses in the hope of fighting ...

Italy is getting crabby. After an influx of invasive crabs, The Boot is sending in the tentacles. The country is now arming its waters with 130,000 octopuses after a surge of blue crabs spent decades ...

Although prized in the United States, the crustaceans have been decimating ecosystems and the fishing industry in Italy.

After half a decade of worryingly low numbers, the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population appears to be fighting its way out of a slump. This year's field sampling estimated a total population of 349 ...

The Italian government has previously been urged to declare a state of emergency over the blue crab explosion, fuelled by climate-warmed waters. View on euronews ...

Fiddler crabs use their large claws to wave down females and didn’t take kindly to a robot newcomer in Portugal. Joe A. Wilde Like many people around the world, animal behavior researcher Joe Wilde ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blue crabs arrived in the Mediterranean decades ago to wreak havoc in Italy's clam-producing northeast (Stefano RELLANDINI) From a ...