La Trobe University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Someone who recently discovered that I do research on freshwater crayfish asked a simple question: How long do yabbies live?

Katherine Warwick has received funding from industry, community groups, not-for-profit organisations, Commonwealth, New South Wales and local Government. She has previously worked for Blue Mountains ...

They are small, dark brown and some have been burrowed in the moist soil of dry backwaters for years. But as flows rise in the Murray, yabbies are emerging from hibernation and providing a bumper ...

Some fishermen on Queensland's Gold Coast are accusing visiting anglers of destroying the local yabby supply and have enlisted researchers to catch the culprits. While competition for the best fishing ...

Yabbies have humble associations in Australia, of quiet days fishing in farm dams perhaps. But in Russia's second city they enjoy a much higher status. Russian researchers have taken the Aussie red ...

Yabbying was very high on the to-do list, in fact I spent hours soaking baits to score a feed that I would proudly present for dinner around the campfire. In those early days the fishing methods were ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. They may have tiny brains, but yabbies possess a sophisticated sixth sense which alerts them to prey and predators, researchers have ...

They may have tiny brains, but yabbies possess a sophisticated sixth sense which alerts them to prey and predators, researchers have discovered. The freshwater Australian crayfish has an ability to ...