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

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 ...

Spider crabs: Monsters of the deep They might look terrifyingly alien, but spider crabs are sustainable, plentiful – and utterly scrumptious. It's time we faced our fears and tucked in, says ...

Hawaii is home to at least 20 species of small spider crabs. Pictured is one such Hawaii spider crab. Also called collector or decorator crabs, spider crabs have hooked hairs on their bodies that ...

Abundant populations of the deep-sea spider crab <I>Encephaloides armstrongi</I> from c. 1,000 m (lower boundary OMZ) in the Gulf of Oman and the dead bodies of large upper-ocean jellyfish ...

Amazing footage shows a Japanese spider crab moulting its shell at Seaworld San Diego marine park. In the video, the crab can be seen leaving its old shell behind and reappearing in a new vibrant ...

Weng Ngai Lam, Hugh T. W. Tan, The crab spider–pitcher plant relationship is a nutritional mutualism that is dependent on prey-resource quality, Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. 88, No. 1, Special ...

A Common Spider Crab at Crookes Point on Sunday. (G. Simmons) Mole Crabs We didn't know what they were at first, clustered along the edge of the wrack line, that line where the water from high ...