Poking around on the beach, you may have encountered a hermit crab — a typically petite crustacean whose home is the shell it carries around on its back. Now imagine that tiny crab grew bigger and ...

The breed of crab shown in the video is a coconut crab, and they are a far cry from Ariel's sassy little sidekick, Sebastian. Weighing in at nearly nine pounds and measuring up to three feet from leg ...

It’s official–the coconut crab has the strongest grip of any animal. Researchers at the Okinawa Churashima Foundation in Japan, found that a coconut crab’s pinching power corresponds with its size — ...

Among terrestrial arthropods, the phylum that includes crustaceans, spiders and insects, coconut crabs are the largest on the planet. The crabs, which live on islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans, ...

COURTESY SUSAN SCOTT This coconut crab was photographed south of Hawaii on Palmyra. Coconut crabs come in a rainbow of stunning colors arranged in dots, spots, bars and blotches. With two red stalked ...

There’s a theory that giant crabs overwhelmed Amelia Earhart, dismembered her and carried her bones underground. Speculative, at best. Sounds crazy, we know. But so has almost every other horrifying ...

In the war to unseat humanity as rulers of the animal kingdom, the main combatants are cephalopods, ravens, raccoons, and a new contender — coconut crabs. “On March 2, 2016, in the middle of the night ...