The crab fossil was collected between 2012–2018, but its importance only became clear when Klompmaker studied the specimen in ...

making it the oldest modern-looking crab ever to be uncovered. Previous fossil records, which mainly consist of bits and pieces of claws, suggested nonmarine crabs came onto land and freshwater ...

have identified the largest known crab fossil claw ever discovered. In their paper published in the journal New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, Barry W. M. van Bakel and Àlex Ossó ...

crab- or spider-like legs and a long, stout tail. It is a “living fossil” whose appearance has remained unchanged for about 200 million years. Females are about 60 centimeters long and weigh ...