According to one theory, Earhart did not drown in the Pacific but instead crashed on the remote Nikumaroro atoll, where she was eaten by coconut crabs Rachel Nuwer December 26, 2013 ...

We might never know what truly happened to Amelia Earhart, whether she was eaten by crabs or eventually met up with D.B. Cooper and Jimmy Hoffa to hang on a beach in Mexico.

If you read about coconut crabs, you might come across this alleged factoid: the massive arthropods may have stolen the remains of Amelia Earhart and hidden them in their burrows.

Coconut crabs play a key role in TIGHAR’s hypothesis about what happened to Amelia Earhart after she and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared on July 2, 1937, on the third-to-last leg of their ...

The coconut crab’s incredible strength and sense of smell have led to speculation that the species might be behind the disappearance of American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart.

They posit Earhart did not drown in the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, but that she instead crashed on Nikumaroro atoll, Kiribati, where her corpse was ripped apart by coconut crabs. A coconut ...

One theory is that Amelia Earhart's remains were eaten by a 3-foot long crab with claws so powerful it can ... Coconut crabs received their name after famed biologist Charles Darwin observed them ...

On a summer day in 1937, pilot Amelia Earhart took off with her navigator to fly around the globe, and—according to one theory—eventually crash-landed on a remote island in the Pacific where ...

The mystery surrounding Amelia Earhart’s disappearance has bewildered many for years. Some have proposed that her plane simply crashed and sank, while others have pondered a number of other e… ...

Coconut crabs are omnivorous and have been known to eat and scatter the bones of their prey when they return to the burrows. Is this what happened to Amelia Earhart? Image Credit: KYTan ...