On Australia's mangrove-lined east coast, the star of the Easter lunch menu is often a delicious, meaty mud crab. But before any giant muddie makes it to the dinner table, it has likely already ...

Psssst, mud crabs, time to hide because blue crabs are coming to eat you! That's the warning the prey get from the predators' urine when it spikes with high concentrations of two chemicals, which ...

In Australia’s mangrove-lined mudflats and estuaries live armour-plated mud-dwellers with massive bone-crunching claws. Emerging from muddy holes and hides with the ebb and flow of the tides, the ...

An assessment of the NT's two mud crab fisheries has found the abundance of crabs in the Arafura West region has fallen below a trigger point. Both fisheries will soon be closed for three months. The ...

Brigitte Hafner loves cooking with live mud crabs. It’s not for the faint of heart but the rewards are great. It can be a messy business, this cooking with crabs – shrapnel and juice sprayed all over ...

Pinpointing urine compounds for the first time that make mud crabs hide for their lives, if blue crabs pee nearby, opens new doors to understanding how chemicals invisibly regulate marine wildlife.

The Northern Territory's mud crab industry will not supply crabs to the market this Christmas after a decision to close its fisheries for three months. It came after a harvest strategy assessment ...