Either way, a steady diet can assist certain crab species in growing to incredible sizes. The biggest crab in the world, the Japanese spider crab, is capable of achieving a leg span of more than ...

Not many creatures on Earth can pull off keeping a pride of curious lions at bay. But lions don’t want to get their soft ...

Primarily fished around the Alaskan coast in the Bering Sea, king crabs are the largest commercially fished crab species and ...

The miniature crustacean has won hearts online, with the video going viral on social media. The clip has amassed some 9.1 ...

Horseshoe crabs are often referred to as the "living fossils" of our planet—the four known species, including three in Asia ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like ... Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on Earth, Japanese spider crabs are the largest, spanning up to 12.5 feet from the tip of one front ...

Researchers recently found that the species should be split into six, maybe even seven, genetically distinct groups.

The baby king crab, known scientifically as Neolithodes agassizii, was found by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...