It's not dead oak and beech leaves on their minds, however, but another red-tinted carpet—100 million crimson-colored crabs.

The annual red crab migration has begun! This extraordinary event has been shared in social media posts like this one. There is no doubt that the crabs are already on the move in the lead-up to the ...

Christmas Island residents are once again sharing their home with millions of red crabs as they make their way to the ocean, with their numbers having "skyrocketed" in recent years.

It’s not easy to preserve artefacts and architecture in tropical environments with strong multicultural and multifaith histories. But without them, we cannot tell the true story of Australia’s ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Tens of millions of red crabs are making their way to the ocean as part of their annual migration on Christmas Island, where a much smaller human population uses leaf blowers ...

Every year, Christmas Island, located in the Indian Ocean near the Indonesian Island of Java, becomes a striking sight as tens of millions of red crabs make their annual migration to the ocean. During ...

It's something you have to see to believe. A beach on the island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands is overtaken by a millions of hermit crabs during the crustacean's mass migration, turning the ...

Dungeness crab season has hit a snag in California. The recreational Dungeness crab season officially opened on November 1, ...

The island off mainland Australia experiences the event every summer, when around 50 million crabs scuttle down from their ...

Every year, red crabs overtake roads and homes as they migrate from their forest dwellings to the sea, where they spawn their ...