Some animals have crushing bites that can break even bones, but the coconut crab can crush incredibly tough objects with nothing more than its hefty claws. Image Credit: Anke Heldmann/YouTube As their ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It may not be wise to get into a scrap with a coconut crab. Its claw is a mighty weapon. Scientists on Wednesday said they measured the pinch strength of this large land crab ...

Coconut crabs’ claws already look fearsome enough as it is, but appearance merely tells part of the story. According to a new study, these claws may actually be the most powerful in the entire animal ...

A big coconut crab snaps its outsized left claw as hard as a lion can bite, new measurements suggest. So what does a land crab the size of a small house cat do with all that pinch power? For starters, ...

That’s a shell of a grip! Scientists have discovered that the coconut crab has the strongest pinching force of all crabs, lobsters and other crustaceans, the journal PLOS ONE reports. And it’s so ...

Have you ever shaken someone’s hand and they had a really strong grip? So strong that it made you cringe in pain? Well, we should have those pain perpetrators shake hands with a coconut crab. Coconut ...