Tamatoa is the second antagonist in Disney's Moana. He is a huge wicked crab who lusts after everything valuable and shiny.

The first boatloads of Magellan spider crabs (king crab) arrived in Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile, late last week, marking the commencement of the 2009 spider crab season and the end of the ...

The bird dung crab spider, known for its camouflage resembling bird droppings, has been discovered for the first time in Assam, India. Zoologists documented the species in Sonapur and Chirang ...

As Florida's stone crab season begins on Tuesday, Oct. 15, the double-whammy of back-to-back hurricanes ...

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If we became crab-like it would be a slightly horrifying experience, an expert tells us. Crabs molt their entire outer exoskeleton, from their eyes to their gut. Coconut crabs are massive. Up to three ...

What follows are 23 very short essays on creatures ranging from the wombat to the spider; the raccoon ... this day also "home to a colony of coconut hermit crabs: the world's largest land crab.