At least one theory says Earhart met her demise due to the giant coconut crabs after landing on a remote island.

The coconut crab looks like something straight out of a monster movie. With a leg span exceeding 3 feet and claws capable of generating more force than almost any other animal on Earth, it is the ...

Giant coconut crabs that roam a remote Pacific island where researchers are searching for Amelia Earhart's missing plane are ...

Researchers will sleep on their ship to avoid giant crabs that can lift heavy weights, split open coconuts, and may have played a role in Earhart's demise.

Researchers are searching for Amelia Earhart's plane on an island home to giant, meat-eating coconut crabs.

Researchers hunting for the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s plane have followed new clues to a remote Pacific atoll, inhabited ...

The scale also sorts crabs by which of four evolutionary routes they took onto land, since crabs arriving via freshwater ...