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 Largest Crab Ever Caught The largest crab to have ever been caught was a Japanese spider crab whose captors nicknamed it "Big Daddy" after ... including islands like Christmas Island and ...

Myself and series researcher, Yoland Bosiger were down on the Mornington Peninsula, south east Australia, to film the annual mass aggregation of spider ... crab legs to show how huge a crab looks ...

Despite their common name, horseshoe crabs are more closely related to spiders and scorpions than ... or telson, which looks like a big stinger but is used to help these animals flip if overturned ...

ANDY TORBET:Their bodies can grow as big as a basketball ... matching the Japanese spider crab.' ANDY TORBET:And it looks like an armoured space suit. What it is, is a submarine that you can ...