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

The crustaceans of Nikumaroro may have been the aviator’s best source of food—and the reason almost nothing remained of her.

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

There's a theory that giant crabs overwhelmed Amelia Earhart, dismembered her and carried her bones underground. Speculative, at best. Sounds crazy, we know. But so has almost every other horrifying ...

The coconut crab looks like something straight out of a monster movie. With a leg span exceeding 3 feet and claws capable of generating more force than almost any other animal on Earth, it is the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Could a crab (or crabs) be responsible for the ultimate demise of one of the 20th century's great American heroes? As researchers ...