Coconut crabs might be the heavyweight champions of all crustaceans. The largest land-dwelling crab on Earth, Birgus latro can lift about 66 pounds with its pincers and can pinch with about 750 pounds ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

That’s a shell of a grip! Scientists have discovered that the coconut crab has the strongest pinching force of all crabs, lobsters and other crustaceans, the journal PLOS ONE reports. And it’s so ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Not very much has been learned about coconut crabs since Charles Darwin first described how these fearfully powerful crustaceans can crack open the fruit of the palm tree for ...

Our childhood hermit crab has a rather more … sizable cousin: the 3-foot-wide, 9-pound coconut crab that can rip coconuts and sometimes, well, kittens to pieces. We were appreciating this lovely ...