But it was totally out of place, which was why my mind didn’t immediately say, “Gee, there’s a shield-backed kelp crab sitting in the middle of the driveway more than 100 feet from the water!” ...

With legs that can stretch over 12 feet and a haunting appearance from the deep, the Japanese spider crab truly lives up to its nickname - the original Kaiju. In this video, we dive into the biology, ...

If the wind conditions were just right—which, for these crab spiders, meant less than 7.3 miles per hour (3.3 meters per second) with a nice upward draft—they stood up very straight, stuck ...

A diver was swimming amid thousands of spider crabs off the coast of Victoria, Australia, when she noticed that one of them was trapped by the leg in a fishing line.

Japanese spider crabs live on the Pacific side of Japan as far south as Taiwan and at chilly depths ranging from 164 feet to as low as 1,640 feet. (They spawn at the shallower end of that spectrum.) ...

The crab saw, or somehow sensed, its impending doom and started to move away. But then, showing John Wayne levels of grit, the spider crab stopped short of leaving all the way.

Japanese spider crabs live on the Pacific side of Japan as far south as Taiwan and at chilly depths ranging from 164 feet to as low as 1,640 feet. (They spawn at the shallower end of that spectrum.) ...