Meet the world’s largest Land Crab that may have eaten Amelia Earhart Alive
The coconut crab – the world’ s largest land crab – can weigh over 4 kg (8.8 lbs) and span nearly a meter (3 feet) across. This guy can rip open a coconut with its power-claws, and it can also climb trees (ouch)! And, it could be the animal that devoured Amelia Earhart… “Monstrous.” That was the word that left Charles Darwin’s lips when he first saw a coconut crab. And indeed, it’s no ordinary crab. It’s strong enough to carry more than six times its own weight. In Darwin’s days, there were rumors that the crabs could climb trees and dangle from them for hours on a single pincer, holding on by nothing more than a single pincer-like some massive overgrown spider. There were stories that their claws were so strong that they could break through a coconut. And there were stories that they could tear a human being apart, limb by limb. Darwin didn’t believe most of these rumors, but in the end they turne...