We went on a night walk one night and got to see some coconut crabs. They were big but not as big as this coconut crab mural that we saw while we were walking around the town

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We went on a night walk one night and got to see some coconut crabs. They were big but not as big as this coconut crab mural that we saw while we were walking around the town

#travel #japan #okinawa #vacation #miyakoisland #travelphotography #coconutcrab #mural #streetart #omsystem

The world’s largest terrestrial invertebrate?

That would be the coconut crab. It can span ~3 ft (1 m) long from leg tip to leg tip & weigh ~8 lbs (4 kg)! It inhabits coasts off of the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Scientists have compared its pinching power to a lion’s bite force!🥥🦀

American Museum of Natural History
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