Poking around on the beach, you may have encountered a hermit crab — a typically petite crustacean whose home is the shell it carries around on its back.

Coconut crabs might be the heavyweight champions of all crustaceans. The largest land-dwelling crab on Earth, Birgus latro can lift about 66 pounds with its pincers and can pinch with about 750 ...

It’s official--the coconut crab has the strongest grip of any animal. Researchers in Japan found that a coconut crab’s pinching power corresponds with its size -- and that force was tremendous.

That’s a shell of a grip! Scientists have discovered that the coconut crab has the strongest pinching force of all crabs, lobsters and other crustaceans, the journal PLOS ONE reports. And it’s ...

Our childhood hermit crab has a rather more … sizable cousin: the 3-foot-wide, 9-pound coconut crab that can rip coconuts and sometimes, well, kittens to pieces.