A coconut crab. (Credit: Shin-ichoro Oka/PLOS.org) Talk about a powerful handshake. Researchers have measured the crushing grip of coconut crabs, the largest hermit crabs on Earth, for the first time, ...

Some animals have crushing bites that can break even bones, but the coconut crab can crush incredibly tough objects with nothing more than its hefty claws. Image Credit: Anke Heldmann/YouTube As their ...

Its handshake could crush your fingers. A giant crab from the Asia-Pacific region can lift the weight of a small child and has the most powerful claw strength of any crustacean. The coconut crab – ...

Male fiddler crabs have little strength despite their size. (Photo courtesy of Shinichi Fujiwara) The destructive power of crustaceans' claws depends not only on the claws' length, but also on the ...

A huge crab named Big Daddy is a part of the Guinness World Records list for being the “world's widest crustacean living in captivity.” The organisation took to Instagram to share a few images of the ...