National Geographic

May 14, 2024

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Fun animal fact:
Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on Earth, Japanese spider crabs are the largest, spanning up to 12.5 feet from the tip of one front claw to the other. They're also one of the world's largest arthropods, animals with no backbone, external skeletons, and multiple-jointed appendages.