University of Gothenburg researchers have provided scientific proof that shore crabs feel pain, urging a reevaluation of how shellfish are treated under EU animal welfare laws. This evidence supports ...

Members of the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, have renewed calls for a ban on boiling lobsters and crabs ...

Did you know that crabs have well-developed senses of sight and smell? They can see objects from 60 feet away and their eyes can take in a 360-degree panoramic view. Their antennae enable them to ...

Researchers in Sweden have made a new discovery which could change the way people cook crabs and lobsters. According to a new ...

They measured central nervous system activity in crabs subjected to stress on claws, antennae, and legs. The findings suggest that shore crabs have pain signaling to the brain, with physical ...

The antennae are blue and legs a mottled white and orange, making this overall a pretty good looker. While it is a useful scavenger it can be downright clumsy, which limits suitability for the reef ...

The research team used sophisticated equipment to record electrical activity in different parts of the crabs’ nervous systems ...

Every part of the shore crabs’ bodies responded to each painful stimuli, except its antennae, which only exhibited responses to chemical stimuli. These pain principles apply not only to shore ...

Boiling lobsters and crabs alive has been a common method of ... electric shocks or noxious acids touching their soft tissues such as the antennae. In these earlier experiments, the shellfish ...

Every part of the shore crabs’ bodies responded to each painful stimuli, except its antennae, which only exhibited responses to chemical stimuli. These pain principles apply not only to shore crabs ...

Because there is little neurobiological information on how a crab responds to noxious stimuli, the researchers also tested the effects of mechanical stimulation of external soft tissues. This would ...