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.

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 ...

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

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

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.

We’ve long assumed the legendary pilot sank to the bottom of the Pacific. But a forensic experiment points to a much darker ...

Was she eaten by crabs? Abducted by aliens? Here’s how the claims all stack up.

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