Japanese spider crabs live on the Pacific side of Japan as far south as Taiwan and at chilly depths ranging from 164 feet to ...

If you’re arachnophobic, I hate to tell you this, but spiders can fly. Don’t panic—it’s pretty much only the extra-tiny ones that take flight, which is a behavior called ballooning. By ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

The pilot deposited the crab about 65 feet back, and the crab scurries away. ROV Jason smoothly pulls a spider crab from its hiding place on top of the seismometer.