Male fiddler crabs are lopsided, with one claw that seems about the right size and one very large claw. As you might expect, one function of the larger claw is to attract females. The males drum with ...

SYDNEY — In the world of fiddler crabs, the best form of protection is, apparently, prostitution, according to an Australian study published Wednesday. Researchers from the Australian National ...

Nine years ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great Marsh, a salt marsh an hour north of Boston, and pulled a thumb-sized crab with an absurdly large claw out of a burrow. I was looking at a ...

This past Sunday at 2 a.m., our clocks were changed back to standard time. This hour change sometimes throws me for a loop and takes me a while to become accustomed to. Have you ever wondered if the ...

The male European fiddler crab attracts his mate by performing a courtship dance. New research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology... Into dudes who drum? You might be a female fiddler ...

Scientists apparently underestimated the aggression of itty-bitty male fiddler crabs when they deployed a friendly robot version during mating season. In a paper published in the journal Proceedings ...

A robot posing as a tough male crab recently challenged real crabs to a showdown during mating season — and the videos are hilarious. The robot, nicknamed "Wavy Dave," infiltrated fiddler crab (Afruca ...

Fiddler crabs are renowned for their elaborate courtship displays, which involve both visual and vibrational signals that play crucial roles in mate attraction and intraspecific communication. Males ...

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 ...

In mid-Atlantic salt marshes, reproductively active male sand fiddler crabs, Uca pugilator, use a single greatly enlarged major claw as both a weapon to defend specialized breeding burrows from other ...

Video captured by visitors of Dauphin Island shows hundreds of Fiddler crabs in the marshy area. Kim Milstead said she and ...