Mote has been working with NOAA and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ... Caribbean king crabs could join the coral on the reefs as soon as December or January.

Not so long ago there was a little crab, his name was Colin. Colin lived on the sea bed, in vibrant tropical warm waters surrounded by the most colourful fish and marine life you could imagine.

Male crabs tend to have larger claws and more white meat. However, the females sometimes contain coral - a flavoursome red roe.

If I lay on the bottom, they would just clamber over me as though I was a lump of rock or coral.' Once in shallow water, many of them moult out of their exoskeletons (shells), emerging with soft new ...

Not far beneath the surface of the Coral Sea, where the Great Barrier Reef lives, parrotfish teeth grind against rock, crab claws snap ... Anemone arms flutter and tiny fish and shrimp seem ...