Sea Life Senior Curator Chris Brown prepares to move Japanese Spider crab named Big Daddy as it settles in to its new home at Blackpool’s…
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The Giant Grubs of the Hercules Beetle
Above is photo of the grub of a Hercules Beetle (Dynastes hercules); the largest of the rhinoceros beetles. The grubs can reach 4.5 inches (110mm) in…
MoreCoconut Crabs, the largest arthropod on land
The Coconut Crab, Birgus latro, is the world’s largest terrestrial arthropod, obtaining weights of up to 9 pounds. Although called the Coconut Crab, coconuts represent only…
MoreWorld’s Smallest Fly
As discussed so elegantly by Ed Yong at Not Exactly Rocket Science Brian Brown from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has just discovered…
MoreMonster Tasmanian King Crab
But Claude the Tasmanian giant crab was saved from death when the fisherman who caught him sold him to a British aquarium for £3,000.Now, after…
MoreGiant Tree Lobsters Rediscovered
From Time… Eighty years after they disappeared, tree lobsters have been rediscovered, living near an old volcano in Australia. And no, they’re not actually “lobsters,”…
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