Golden ghost crabs go after hatchlings during western Australia’s nesting season. “Previous studies are mostly limited to evidence of loggerhead turtle nest disturbances and egg counts,” said Casper ...

Millions of red crabs are coming out of their burrows on Christmas Island in Australia to begin one of their largest migrations in years. With the crabs now moving toward the sea, traffic delays and ...

Male banana fiddler crabs take courting to a new, and pushy, level: The little Australian crab males wait for females to enter their burrows and then trap them in order to mate, scientists have found.

It’s that time of year again and no, we’re not talking about the holidays. The red crab migration season has begun on Australia’s Christmas Island, when the streets get quite literally covered in ...

This month, an eerily precise annual migration began in earnest on a tiny Australian island about 500 miles off the coast of Indonesia. Every year, millions of adult red crabs — first the males, then ...

This footage of giant spider crabs congregating in their thousands in Australian waters is sure to make your skin crawl. The creatures meet en masse annually so they can all shed their shells for new ...

Hats: They’re a hot fashion trend — even if you’re a crustacean. A previously undiscovered species of crab, recently found washed up on a beach in Western Australia, apparently seeks out and tailors ...

Nov. 18 (UPI) --Highways and roads have been shut down on an Australian island for an annual occurrence: the migration of millions of red crabs. The red crabs of Christmas Island migrate every autumn ...

The moment was caught on video in October 2020, but the 1-minute and 39-second clip has gone viral after a Reddit user by the name of Lessons_Learnt shared it to the site’s r/Australia and ...

Two thousand feet below the surface of Western Australia’s coast, a light flickers where no sunlight reaches. It’s not from a submersible or diver’s lamp — it comes from a shark. Nearby, two ...