The key to New Orleans chef Melissa Martin's fantastic crab cakes is using leftover boiled shrimp as a binder instead of ...

Scientists unleash army of octopuses to fight off blue crab invasion - The crustaceans have caused huge damage to Italy’s ...

Italy has come up with a new weapon in its war against an invasive species of crab – an army of voracious octopuses.

Italy is sending in eight-armed reinforcements against a crab that won't quit. In the Adriatic, scientists have released ...

Blue crabs are a delicacy in the U.S. But across the Atlantic, these crustaceans are wrecking havoc on Italian fisheries. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Laura Gentile with the University of Bologna.

ITALY has unleashed an army of 130,000 killer octopuses to wipe out a devastating invasion of blue crab. This extreme method ...

Dr. David Johnson, an ecologist at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science, has spent more than 20 years in salt marshes, at sites all along the U.S. East and Gulf coasts. But while ...

Italy is getting crabby. After an influx of invasive crabs, The Boot is sending in the tentacles. The country is now arming ...

The Chesapeake Bay's most popular crustacean has a dark streak. Cannibalism is the No. 1 killer of juvenile blue crabs in mid-salinity waters where they are known to congregate, according to a new ...

Around 130,000 common octopus paralarvae, or newly hatched octopuses, have been released into waters off Italy as part of a ...

Off the coast of Italy, an unusual battle is unfolding: octopuses are being deployed to hunt an invasive species of crab that ...