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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHRISTMAS ISLAND, Australia – The annual red crab migration on Christmas Island has begun, as millions of crabs have emerged simultaneously from their burrows in search of a mate. One of the largest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each year Australia's northwestern Christmas Island is flooded with millions of red crabs migrating to the ocean. Highways and roads are shut down, storefronts find red crabs in their lots and ...