The researchers detailed their discovery in the journal Zootaxa last week. Though crayfish—also called crawdads or crawfish—may not be everyone’s idea of the perfect animal companion ...

When a team of scientists studying the brightly colored and common New Guinea crayfish ordered some new animals for their lab, they were in for a bit of a surprise. They uncovered a species of the ...

The easiest way to tell the difference between lobsters and crayfish is to look at where are living. Crayfish live in freshwater rivers, lakes, ponds, and streams while lobsters live in saltwater ...

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 ...