The study measuring whether crabs felt pain was first published in Biology in October 2024. In it, scientists measured brain activity in crabs exposed to potentially painful stimuli. By attaching ...

Crabs can feel pain when they are boiled alive during conventional food preparation —- as do other shellfish like lobsters, according to a new study. Zoologists from Sweden’s University of Gothenburg ...

Scientists called for humane ways to handle crabs, lobsters, and other shellfish in the kitchen after showing for the first time that crustaceans indeed feel pain. Boiling lobsters and crabs alive has ...