Millions of red crabs are coming out of their burrows on Christmas Island in Australia to begin one of their largest migrations in years. With the crabs now moving toward the sea, traffic delays ...

With more than 150 million red crabs on Christmas Island, their annual migration from the interior of the remote island to the coast can be hard to miss. But their equally colourful neighbours, the ...

Each year about 150 million red crabs migrate on Christmas Island, 2,600 kilometres off the West Australian coast. The annual spectacle attracts tourists from around the world, eager to see the ...

Christmas Island, an Australian island in the Indian Ocean, is home to one of the world's coolest natural wonders: the Christmas Island red crab migration. Every year, the island's ~50 million ...

And, while geographically much closer to Bali than Australia, the only practical way to get here is a four-hour flight from Perth. The captain might even know that the red-crab curious should ...

"On Christmas Island, most of the streams are all close to the coast, so they don't have to go very far like the red crabs do," Parks Australia ecologist Brendan Tiernan said. "So it's seldom ...

It’s that time of year, when baby red crabs make a dash for safety and become the meal of many a voracious predator on Christmas Island.

It’s that time of year, when baby red crabs make a dash for safety and become the meal of many a voracious predator on Christmas Island.

More than 120 million flame crabs are making their way to the ocean in Western Australia from the jungles of Christmas Island. Authorities opened a bridge for them to safely cross a road in the ...