From giant crabs found on the Alaskan coast and around Japan to tiny, colorful land crabs that live in the ... The crab meat, ...

“The red crab, endemic to Christmas Island, is the most abundant of the more than 20 species of land crab on the Island,” says Brendan Tiernan, Senior Threatened Species Program Coordinator at ...

Researchers recently found that the species should be split into six, maybe even seven, genetically distinct groups.

It is one of more than 20 species of land crab on the island. With more than 150 million red crabs on Christmas Island, their annual migration from the interior of the remote island to the coast ...