The Purdue University expedition to find Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra has encountered massive coconut crabs while clearing trails on Nikumaroro Island.

At least one theory says Earhart met her demise due to the giant coconut crabs after landing on a remote island.

The crabs are so oppressive that expeditioners won't even be able to sleep on the island where the plane is believed to have crashed.

Large, flesh-eating coconut crabs could get in the way of the crew searching for Amelia Earhart‘s missing plane. Purdue University confirmed in a report on Monday, October 12, that due to the danger ...

Researchers hunting for the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s plane have followed new clues to a remote Pacific atoll, inhabited ...

Giant coconut crabs that roam a remote Pacific island where researchers are searching for Amelia Earhart's missing plane are so numerous that the team is sleeping offshore rather than on land. A joint ...

A current expedition searching for famed aviator Amelia Earhart's lost plane arrived Oct. 12 at a remote Pacific island where one theory holds that the Kansas native met her demise at the claws of ...

A recent Purdue University expedition searching for Earhart’s missing aircraft found coconut crab activity on the same island ...

Could the enormous coconut crabs on a tiny, uninhabited Pacific island provide some answers in one of aviation's greatest ...

Tens of thousands of giant spider crabs have migrated to South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula, baffling locals and scientists ...