As The Conversation detailed, once infected, male crabs start showing female brood-care behavior, tending the parasite's ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Marine researchers have spent 15 years trying to nail down the life cycle of a single-celled parasite fatal to blue crabs. On Oct. 4, they announced they cracked the case.

Parasitic, egg-eating worms might sound like the stuff of nightmares, but they're simply a fact of life for blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay. Interestingly, a new study published in the journal PLOS ...

The parasite affects young blue crabs, which are typically found in high-salinity waters, like parts of the Chesapeake Bay Oysters removed roughly 60% of the parasites from the affected water within ...

A herring in the North Sea, a crab in the Wadden Sea or an anemone fish on a coral reef… biologists like to think in terms of individual species that all have their own place within food webs in ...

With no wind to speak of, the water was calm along a pier on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. And with no clouds to speak of, the sun beat down on Xuqing Chen as she filled a mesh cage with oysters on a hot ...

Oysters famously filter their surrounding water, but it turns out they are removing more than algae and excess nutrients. New research from William & Mary's Batten School of Coastal & Marine Sciences ...

Experts believe these findings could soon shape the future of restoration efforts Getty New study shows oyster filter feeding has significantly reduced the presence of Hematodinium perezi The parasite ...