A decade 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 fiddler ...

In 2014, Dr. David Johnson was walking within a muddy salt marsh an hour north of Boston at the Plum Island Ecosystem (PIE) LTER when an Atlantic marsh fiddler crab, Minuca pugnax, scuttled across his ...

New research shows South Carolina horseshoe crabs are laying eggs in the salt marsh and those eggs are developing.

Spring is a lovely time to go to the coast. Most of us gravitate towards the beaches, but it can also be fun to visit the salt marshes that line our coastline — estuaries, where rivers meet the sea.

If you’ve ever encountered the domed shell of a horseshoe crab, chances are it was on a sandy beach. Until recently, beaches were believed to be the only places where horseshoe crab eggs could hatch ...

A new study has found that sea otters are helping to slow down salt marsh erosion in Elkhorn Slough in California by eating burrowing crabs. Drawing on a range of data sources, which included surveys ...

GEORGETOWN — Although South Carolina is home to more salt marsh than any other state on the East Coast, the ecosystem is rapidly disappearing. In addition to providing habitat for birds, fish, oysters ...

Sea otters are making an impact as they return to the wetlands of Central California. Remarkable changes have occurred in the landscape as these adorable animals recolonize their former habitat in the ...