What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

and Monterey Bay Aquarium have great tanks – with the latter featuring a live crab cam dedicated to the Japanese spider crab!) Have you ever wondered why some whales have spots or patches of ...

But in reality it is a Japanese spider crab, one of the world’s largest crustacean arthropods, kept at Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in the city’s Kanazawa Ward. According to aquarium ...