Larger females generally produce larger offspring with superior qualities because larger body size can reduce susceptibility to predation and starvation. The removal of larger and older individuals ...

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 ...

Coconut crabs are infamous, large (up to 18in long), tree-crawling, land-dwelling crustaceans. Researchers are now adding to their status as fearsome creatures, finding that their pincers are mightily ...

A big coconut crab snaps its outsized left claw as hard as a lion can bite, new measurements suggest. So what does a land crab the size of a small house cat do with all that pinch power? For starters, ...

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 ...

Male fiddler crabs have little strength despite their size. (Photo courtesy of Shinichi Fujiwara) The destructive power of crustaceans' claws depends not only on the claws' length, but also on the ...

Stay safe and never try to mess with coconut crabs, Birgus latro, as their pinch will be too hard to handle. The crab with strong claws is counted as one of the strongest terrestrial animals, with a ...

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 ...

Lobsters are lightweights - the mighty coconut crab has the most powerful claws of any crustacean, scientists have discovered. Tests conducted on 29 wild coconut crabs from Okinawa island, Japan, ...