What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

Masters of camouflage, like the Cyanea Octopus and Flounders, have adapted the remarkable ability to change colours, helping ...

When water temperatures rise to 60 degrees and level off after the last cold snaps of winter, the coastline welcomes ...

It looked like an alien from a sci-fi movie. But in reality it is a Japanese spider crab, one of the world’s largest crustacean arthropods, kept at Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in the city ...

Myself and series researcher, Yoland Bosiger were down on the Mornington Peninsula, south east Australia, to film the annual mass aggregation of spider crabs. These crabs come together to shed ...

Despite their common name, horseshoe crabs are more closely related to spiders and scorpions than to “true crabs,” which are crustaceans. They’re in the class Merostomata, which means “leg ...

It is popular along the Pacific seaboard of the United States Spider crabs - popular in France and Spain, this sweet-flavoured crab has no large claws and, indeed, resembles a big spider.

An Australian underwater photographer witnessed hundreds of giant spider crabs on the march in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, on February 5, she said. Jules Casey estimated she saw somewhere between 500 ...