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 ...

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

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.