A key cog in the restoration of the Florida Reef Tract – Mote’s Florida Coral Reef Restoration Crab Hatchery – formally opened Monday, even as a portion of the facility is being used to house corals ...

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Researchers have discovered a symbiotic relationship between tiny crabs and coral in the South Pacific. The relationship between the crab and the coral is detailed in the November 2006 issue of the ...

Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium recently celebrated the official opening of its 6,000-square-foot Florida Coral Reef Restoration Crab Hatchery Research Center, the first fully operational Caribbean ...

A new hermit crab species can live in a walking coral's cavity in a reciprocal relationship, replacing the usual marine worm partner, according to a new study. A new hermit crab species can live in a ...

A new species of hermit crab has been found to be a hermit no more. Off the coast of Japan, the crustacean has managed to find its forever home, by partnering up with a living coral that grows as the ...

Fieldwork in Indonesia and Malaysia by researcher Sancia van der Meij from Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands lead to the discovery of a new coral-dwelling gall crab. The new gall crab, ...

Deep beneath coral rubble in reefs off the coast of Guam, there lives a pale, black-eyed crab whose true taxonomic character has long been unknown. The genus name honors two Harrys: Conley, who died ...