The research underscores growing concerns about how ultra-small plastic particles move through marine ecosystems and into foods people rely on.

Fiddler crabs living in polluted mangrove sediments are swallowing microplastic particles and physically grinding them into nanoplastics, a peer-reviewed field experiment has found. The study, ...

Male fiddler crabs are lopsided, with one claw that seems about the right size and one very large claw. As you might expect, one function of the larger claw is to attract females. The males drum with ...

A research study has shown that fiddler crabs are helping break down faster microplastics that require more than 400 years to decompose into smaller fragments.

This story was originally produced by the New Hampshire Bulletin, an independent local newsroom that allows NHPR and other outlets to republish its reporting. David Johnson had been working in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Male fiddler crabs are small, with one oversized claw. David S. Johnson Nine years ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great ...

NPR science podcast Short Wave brings us the stories of how Fiddler crabs drum their mating songs into the sand, growing chicken nuggets in the lab, and a drug like LSD — without the trip. It's time ...

David Johnson had been working in the salt marshes of Plum Island, just south of New Hampshire’s border, for about a decade when he spotted an unusual small crustacean descend quickly into a burrow in ...