Photo by Corey Arnold @arni_coraldo
At night, the coconut crab come out to play on the barely inhabited islands of Bikini Atoll. I spent a good portion of my life harvesting King Crab from the Bering Sea, but these crab have an even bigger claw, and are more swift and powerful on land then their deep sea relatives. Coconut crab are the largest land-living arthropod in the world and will actually drown if submerged in water for long. More at @arni_coraldo
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