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 ...

Millions of red crabs are emerging from their burrows and the forests of Christmas Island in what is expected to be one ...

“The red crab, endemic to Christmas Island, is the most abundant of the more than 20 species of land crab on the Island,” says Brendan Tiernan, Senior Threatened Species Program Coordinator at ...

The researchers studied the annual mating migration of the land-dwelling Christmas Island red crab in order to help scientists understand the consequences of climate change for the millions of ...