This process will kill the crab immediately. After this, lift the top portion of the shell off and remove the gills (these look a bit like soft, fleshy feathers). Flip the crab over, and remove ...

If you just made yourself a pile of steamed crabs for dinner, don't toss those shells in the trash just yet -- you can still get some use out of them even if you can't eat them. That's because ...

A luxurious seafood item that can be dressed up to your liking, there's only one problem with eating crab: We often let the ...

The increased pressure helps remove the shell completely. The male crab protects her during this delicate stage in an embrace, as he is attracted to her by the release of pheromones. Dr.

Researchers have developed a process to turn crab shells into a bioplastic that can be used to make optical components known as diffraction gratings. The resulting lightweight, inexpensive ...

Hermit crabs are famous for being small critters that, from time to time throughout their lives, abandon one shell carried on their back to pick up a new one. Project HERMITS by [Ken Nakagaki] is ...

then scrape the tomalley (crab fat) and roe into a bowl. Rinse out the back shells then set them aside to air dry. Remove all the meat, tomalley and roe from the crab legs and bodies and add it to ...

like blue crabs, in that they don’t have a uniformly hard exoskeleton and can’t grow their own shells. Instead, hermit crabs have a hard exoskeleton on the front part of their bodies but a ...

This version, using soft shell crabs, is a compromise – you get all the crabby flavour without having to deal with the shells. You’ll still have garlic breath, though. You can use pre-peeled ...