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 ...

In fact, less than half of the 37 spider families in Britain do. Other spiders, such as crab spiders in the family Thomisidae, are 'sit and wait' predators - for example Misumena vatia lurks on flower ...

Masters of camouflage, like the Cyanea Octopus and Flounders, have adapted the remarkable ability to change colours, helping ...

When water temperatures rise to 60 degrees and level off after the last cold snaps of winter, the coastline welcomes ...

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 ...

Myself and series researcher, Yoland Bosiger were down on the Mornington Peninsula, south east Australia, to film the annual mass aggregation of spider crabs. These crabs come together to shed ...

Each year, thousands of deep-sea Australian majid spider crabs set off to walk over the seabed to shallow waters off South Australia. In their drive to migrate, they climb over each other, sometimes ...

An Australian underwater photographer witnessed hundreds of giant spider crabs on the march in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, on February 5, she said. Jules Casey estimated she saw somewhere between 500 ...

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 ...