Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Golden ghost crabs go after hatchlings during western Australia’s nesting season. “Previous studies are mostly limited to evidence ...

Male banana fiddler crabs take courting to a new, and pushy, level: The little Australian crab males wait for females to enter their burrows and then trap them in order to mate, scientists have found.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of red crabs are coming out of their burrows on Christmas Island in Australia to begin one of their largest migrations in ...

Consider Hyas araneus, also known as the great spider crab. Now consider thousands of great spider crabs—hundreds of thousands. Consider how such a crusty group of crustaceans might scuttle across the ...

This footage of giant spider crabs congregating in their thousands in Australian waters is sure to make your skin crawl. The creatures meet en masse annually so they can all shed their shells for new ...

This month, an eerily precise annual migration began in earnest on a tiny Australian island about 500 miles off the coast of Indonesia. Every year, millions of adult red crabs — first the males, then ...

CHRISTMAS ISLAND, Australia – The annual red crab migration on Christmas Island has begun, as millions of crabs have emerged simultaneously from their burrows in search of a mate. One of the largest ...

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 and ...