The term fiddler crab refers to around 100 species and subspecies of crabs from the genus Uca. They are found along beaches ...

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 ...

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. All around her, guys wave seductively, beckoning her to their beach homes. How will the female fiddler crab pick a mate?

56, No. 5, 2011 A behavioral mechanism for dispersal in ... The genus Uca (fiddler crabs) includes both estuarine and coastal species, the zoeae of which must travel varying distances to reach the sea ...

David has received international attention for his work documenting the migration of fiddler crabs into northern states as a result of climate change. Other research has focused on invertebrate ...

I was looking at a fiddler crab – a species that wasn’t supposed to be north of Cape Cod, let alone north of Boston. Advertisement Article continues below this ad As it turned out, the marsh I ...

I was looking at a fiddler crab – a species that wasn’t supposed to be north of Cape Cod, let alone north of Boston. As it turned out, the marsh I was standing in would never be the same.