Meet the giant Japanese spider crab and uncover its unbelievable features.

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 ...

It looked like an alien from a sci-fi movie. But in reality it is a Japanese spider crab, one of the world’s largest crustacean arthropods, kept at Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in the city ...

ANDY TORBET:And here's what happened when I get into a high-pressure situation with a giant spider crab. ANDY TORBET:It's time to say konichiwa, which is Japanese for hello, to this. The giant ...

There is also an Atlantic spider crab that is fished in British and Irish waters and that is mainly exported to Europe, as ...

There are approximately 7,000 species of crab that we know of. Discover some interesting facts about these cool crustaceans which you can ‘pinch’ from us to impress your friends and family.

Sure, they look scary, but those 50 rows of teeth are for filtering krill. The Japanese spider crab is happy to welcome you to 300 meters down. These massive crustaceans are thought to live to 100 ...

In fact, the dogfish at the Toba Aquarium doesn’t even attack the other critters in its surroundings, including a Japanese spider crab, the “star” of the gloomy tank. For 30 years ...

Amy Carter, 46, and her partner Scott Southey, 49, were walking at Talybont, near Barmouth, Gwynedd, last Monday when they found the crustacean, understood to be a spiny spider crab. "I was a bit ...