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A crab that swam the seas 95 million years ago was believed to be an active predator with sharp vision as opposed to today’s bottom-dwellers with limited vision.

A new study finds that the large, fast-growing eyes of the ancient crab Callichimaera perplexa suggest it was a predator.

A 100-million-year-old crab is the first crab ever found in amber from the dinosaur era. The fossil bridges a gap

A very ancient crab has been found preserved in amber dating back about 100 million years and has been described as being a “spectacular” find. There have been several previous discoveries of living creatures found in amber but they were all from land. This newly discovered crab specimen is actually the oldest ever discovery of... Read more »

Scientists found a prehistoric crab trapped in amber 100 million years ago, dating back to age of dinosaurs. The crustacean was believed to be the ancestor of today's red crabs that migrate for breeding.

During the dinosaur era, a crab wandering near a coastal forest was buried alive in tree resin and became fossilized. 100 million years later, Javier Luque, a former predoctoral fellow

A tiny crab scuttled around a forest floor, in the time of dinosaurs, minding its own business, when a blob of tree goop oozed onto it. Despite its struggles – during which it may have amputated its own leg in a futile attempt at escape – the s

The Cretaceous-era fossil suggests that crabs left the sea some 50 million years earlier than scientists previously thought

EDMONTON — A young crustacean locked in amber 100 million years ago is filling a crucial gap in the puzzle of crab evolution, according to a

Scientists have found the oldest aquatic animal preserved in amber, a 100-million-year-old small-sized crab.