crayfish

A giant crayfish nicknamed "Crawzilla" has sparked an unexpected scientific discovery, revealing a possible biological limit to how large North America's crayfish can grow.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Using calipers, instruments designed to measure objects with great precision, the researchers compared the sizes of preserved crayfish.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

What started as a little friendly rivalry soon turned into a nationwide search for record-breaking crayfish.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Environmental specialist Peter Cunningham told AFP that potential sediment plumes could impact rocky shoreline habitats, crayfish spawning and breeding species.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

It sounds like the name of a kind of crayfish, or of one of the aliens on my brother’s distant planet.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

And at the same time," added Bouvard, for they mutually excited each other, "this Providence takes care of little birds, and makes the claws of crayfishes grow again.

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert

Their warfare on crayfishes must not be overlooked, nor must we forget the more personal debt of gratitude we owe them for preying upon mosquitoes.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday

Farther east a gap occurs in the distribution and no crayfishes are met with till the basin of the Amur is reached, where a group of species occurs, extending into northern Japan.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various

In South America crayfishes are found in southern Brazil, Argentina and Chile.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various

Upon what do you base your answer?Name two points in which earthworms and crayfishes are alike.

From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Frederic Lucas