There are 700 species of crayfish, the freshwater cousin of the lobster. While many of them evade predatory eyes with "cryptic" colors, a whooping 400 species are coated in blue, red, orange, or ...

A new crayfish species called Cherax pulverulentus has a bright blue color. Jiří Patoka. Scientists have described a new species of colorful crayfish—and it might already be sitting in your ...

These crayfish–also called crawfish or crawdads–are native to New Guinea. Their cool hues have made them popular aquarium pets in Europe, Indonesia, Japan, and the United States over the past ...

Its body has a “steel blue” color with “marbled sides. ... DNA analysis found the species had between 5.6% and 13.8% genetic divergence from other freshwater crayfish.

State researchers have found crayfish — freshwater crustaceans that belong to the same biological group as lobsters — in a creek on the trail. But the crayfish Calloway and Mathes encountered ...

Freshwater crayfish, keystone species of aquatic ecosystems, are now at the center of a new tool that promises to revolutionize conservation efforts. World of Crayfish™ (WoC), a newly launched ...

Dusty crayfish are “burrowing” animals, living in freshwater streams of “the Indonesian part of New Guinea,” an island north of Australia that also includes mainland Papua New Guinea, the ...

The NSW Department of Climate Change has started the first phase of its spiny freshwater crayfish study. (ABC Illawarra: Brooke Chandler) Knowledge gap. Phase one of the study kicked off earlier ...

Dusty crayfish are “burrowing” animals, living in freshwater streams of “the Indonesian part of New Guinea,” an island north of Australia that also includes mainland Papua New Guinea, the ...