Coconut crabs, on the other hand, are able to crush coconuts open with their incredibly powerful pincher. Making them ideal coconut eaters, they are able to scale trees and climb to the top to reach ...

Cracking open a red crab, however, takes seconds. Coconut crabs not only scavenge red crabs but also hunt them on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, Krieger says.

They're huge, antisocial, and fond of stealing your silverware when you're not looking. Meet the colossal coconut crab, one of Earth's largest arthropods.

In addition to old reports of coconut crabs strolling around Hawaiian neighborhoods, disturbing new video shows a coconut crab viciously attacking a bird.

Thanks to their tough shells, coconuts are notoriously difficult to consume – so you don't earn yourself a name like the coconut crab unless you've got a real knack for cracking them open. For ...

It's called a coconut crab because they're agile enough to climb a coconut tree and strong enough to crack it with its claws. This coconut crab was found on Saturday in Salt Lake.

The coconut crab's claws are able to crack through a, you guessed it, coconut shell, so breaking the bird's wings was likely not difficult for the colossal crustacean.

Dr. Alex Wegmann shows Harry Smith one of the most interesting creatures on Palmyra... the coconut crab. These land crabs can grow to be larger than a trash can lid, and their claws are powerful ...

The coconut crab uses its powerful claws for a number of things, but mainly for eating. The powerful creatures are fierce and their claws are used to kill smaller crabs to eat and also to crack ...

A coconut crab kills a large bird called a red-footed booby. Mark Laidre/Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment An enormous land-dwelling crab that is known for climbing trees and cracking open ...