Coconut crabs are the world’s largest land-dwelling arthropods, growing over three feet long and weighing up to nine pounds, with claws strong enough to crack coconuts and exert force greater ...

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They published a report of their crab tests in the journal PLOS One. Coconut crabs (Birgus latro) are strange, strange critters. They’re crustaceans, but they live on land.

A coconut crab has a diet mostly made of seeds, fruits, nuts, and other soft plant matter. They will take advantage of meat sources that they find, like smaller crabs and baby turtles. They’ll even ...

Nikumaroro is home to the giant coconut crab, a massive land-dwelling invertebrate that has been known to hunt and kill large birds for food. These mega-crabs are so large that can have up to a ...

Coconut crabs, known in Indonesia as ketam kenari, are the world’s largest land crab. They’re also quite an unusual species: these invertebrates can live up to 60 years and measure a meter ...

Epic Wildlife/YouTube A coconut crab, also known as a robber crab, climbs a trash can in search of something to eat. “Monstrous.” That was the only word Charles Darwin could find to describe the ...

Instead, he sets traps around the village. Coconut crabs are adventurous omnivores. They eat fruits, nuts, vegetation and carrion, as well as the occasional bird or rat.

Coconut crabs, Birgus latro, might seem unusual – they’re absurdly large, land-dwelling, bird-hunting crustaceans. But on their isolated island homes, their peculiar traits work incredibly well for ...

Meet The World’s Largest Crab That Feeds On Birds And Breaks Bones Nature holds a variety of animals, the human mind is yet to comprehend. One of such is the coconut crab. Powerful enough to rip ...

Coconut crabs, Earth's biggest land crabs, are internet famous from images in which they dwarf trash bins and tear birds limb from limb. But when these crabs aren't devouring seabirds, they're ...