A truly jumbo shrimp is causing big worries about the future of the Gulf of Mexico's ecosystem. The Asian tiger prawn, a foot-long crustacean with a voracious appetite and a proclivity for disease ...

Freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii), also known as the giant river prawn and giant tiger prawn, is a close relative to marine shrimp. They are one of over 950 species in the Palaemonidae ...

Are shrimp and prawn the same thing ... Even within prawns, the distinctions can be confusing. Are tiger prawns the same as king prawns or jumbo prawns? Tiger prawns are huge.