When walking into a beach store, it’s hard to not stop and admire the hermit crabs crawling around in their environment. The crabs may have a shell painted to look like beloved cartoon characters, ...

HAMPTON BEACH — 2024 has proven, so far, to be full of unusual events, beginning with our strange weather and extensive flooding this past winter to some unusual animals showing up in the Gulf of ...

Seafood fans may be surprised by the sight of a pair of tiny claws wiggling around in their oysters, but it’s a more common occurrence than many would think. Raw oyster fans might consider the finding ...

Summer has arrived on the Seacoast and although it may still seem cool to us it is warming for the Gulf of Maine’s inhabitants. The temperature in the water along Hampton Beach this past weekend was ...

A beloved delicacy will soon be back on dining tables in Palm Beach as the annual harvesting season for stone crab kicks off Saturday. The crustaceans’ claws will make their way to island restaurants ...

For the countless horseshoe crabs that trek up Ocean City's 94th Street canal, a successful spawning period could be the difference between sustaining or losing the species entirely. Research that ...

Discover a humble Annapolis crab house where paper-covered tables, Mill Creek views and Old Bay–steamed blue crabs turn lunch ...

NORTH BEACH, Md. — A group of volunteers in North Beach, Maryland is rescuing thousands of horseshoe crabs that become trapped in the shorefront riprap rock installed to protect the town. The ...

A hermit crab crawls around its cage at Bargain Beachwear in North Myrtle Beach. Thousands of hermit crabs are sold every year as a Myrtle Beach area souvenir. Emalyn Muzzy [email protected] When ...