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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Okinawa coconut crab is seen in this undated handout photo. Shin-ichiro Oka/Handout via REUTERS By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It may not be wise to get into a scrap with a coconut crab. Its ...

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 ...

Imagine you’re a red-footed booby napping on a not-quite-high-enough branch of a tree. It’s nighttime on an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, and you can’t see much of what’s around you. Then, ...

Jan. 3 (UPI) --A member of a golfing party on Australia's Christmas Island captured video when a massive coconut crab attempted to steal a golf club -- and ended up chopping through the shaft with its ...

Coconut crab (Birgus latro) populations are only found in islands across the Indian Ocean and the central Pacific Ocean, with most habitats located near the shore. Though they are related to hermit ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Despite being widespread across the Pacific and Indian oceans, coconut crabs are disappearing across their range, according to a new conservation ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It may not be wise to get into a scrap with a coconut crab. Its claw is a mighty weapon. Scientists on Wednesday said they measured the pinch strength of this large land crab ...