king crabs are the largest commercially fished crab species and can grow legs that are up to 5 feet long. These long, spindly ...

Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on Earth, Japanese spider crabs are the largest ... In this crab’s case, those appendages are its 10 legs. Japanese spider crabs live on the Pacific side ...

have identified the largest known crab fossil claw ever discovered. In their paper published in the journal New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, Barry W. M. van Bakel and Àlex Ossó ...