The date probably gives away why the island is called Christmas ... red crab migration period is also a busy season for volunteers and park rangers, who are on constant duty, sweeping crabs ...

the Christmas Island red crab migration. Every year, the island's ~50 million crabs trek from the forest to the coast to breed. Since the ideal breeding conditions are incredibly specific — it ...

"I have crab shoes, crab pants, I've got the tattoos; really anything with crabs on it, I've got," she said. Each year about 150 million red ... Christmas Island in late November, watching the ...

More than 120 million flame crabs are making their way to the ocean in Western Australia from the jungles of Christmas Island. Authorities opened a bridge for them to safely cross a road in the ...

One morning on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, photographer Steve Simonsen captures thousands of hermit crabs migrating What ... Viral King Penguin Molts His Baby Feathers (01:06) National Treasure ...

Bearing the brunt of the ants is the Christmas Island red crab, with over a quarter of the population thought to have been wiped out. These crabs spend most of their life on land, eating leaves and ...