This mudcrab encounter starts in knee-deep mangrove mud, where visibility is low and claws can strike fast. Feeling for the ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). The little octopus didn’t expect to be a spectacle this morning. It was minding its own business — relaxing in an abandoned crab hole, ...

As the tide recedes from the Bay of Rest, mud flats lined with mangrove trees are left exposed. It’s a dichotomy of environments as the seafloor shifts from an underwater habitat to part of the land.

Along the mangrove edge, we come face to face with a truly massive mud crab and decide to try a hands-only catch. We walk through the approach, the grab, and the careful handling it takes to land ...

The Mangrove Ecology and Evolution Lab, led by Dr Stefano Cannicci at the Swire Institute of Marine Sciences (SWIMS) and School of Biological Sciences, the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has recently ...