This article was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. The number of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay ...

The blue crab population in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay is among the lowest it's been in 35 years, but watermen say that doesn't necessarily mean crabs will cost you more this summer. A survey by the ...

Imagine a ghost crab combined with a fiddler crab. Now imagine that hybrid on steroids, like the performance-enhancing drugs used by professional baseball players in the 1990s. That image effectively ...

For centuries, surely not long after the arrival of Captain John Smith, the first Englishman to explore the Chesapeake Bay, Marylanders have developed a deep affection for blue crabs or “Callinectes ...

Coconut crabs are massive. Up to three feet in diameter, they scuttle across remote tropical islands in the western Indo-Pacific Ocean, cracking open coconuts like they’re made of butter, eating ...

One muggy morning in 1932, a 33-year-old Maryland real estate man named Sterling Grover Harris (who had made a good thing of buying Eastern Shore lands from farmers, reselling to rich Northerners) ...