a phenomenon seen in other deep-sea creatures like the giant squid and the Japanese spider crab. It lives from 500 to 7,000 feet (152 to 2,133 meters) deep, from the lower epipalegic (sunlight ...

The ocean holds many bizarre deep-sea monsters ... 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 ...

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 ...

The giant Japanese spider crab. This is the biggest crab in the ... can let me use or move around so freely 'as it's used by deep sea engineers to work on oil rigs and pipes.' ...

The deep sea is one of the hardest parts of ... They primarily feed on sea urchins, hermit crabs, and scallops. Wolffish have been historically overfished, so they are a zero-possession species ...

spiny shell or carapace typical of king crabs, which helps it avoid predation from hungry deep-sea creatures. The largest specimen of this species had a shell measuring 4.6 inches across and 4.8 ...

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 ...