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You'll need bigger crackers
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 12:51 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
The crabs human see or eat are usually only six or so inches across their shells. An aerial image taken in the UK captured a massive crab, and is now garnering a lot of attention online. The aerial shot enables viewers to see the full body of the crab, including its pinchers and legs. It's estimated that the beast measures 50 feet long.
Quinton Winter, who runs a website devoted to the weird and unusual, is one of the folks who has seen the picture. Initially, he believed he was looking at a bizarre sand formation that bore a striking resemblance to a crab. However, he now thinks it is indeed a real-life crab -- one that he actually saw in person last summer. Winter explained, 'At first all I could see was some faint movement, then as it rose from the water I thought, 'That's a funny looking bit of driftwood.' It had glazed blank eyes on stalks, swiveling wildly and it clearly was a massive crab with crushing claws.'
The largest known crab in the world is the Japanese Spider Crab. They can measure 12 feet across from claw to claw and weigh up to 40 pounds.
Re: You'll need bigger crackers
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 1:10 pm
by wesw
my only question is whether that is a fancy saltwater aquarium or if the pic was photoshopped
Re: You'll need bigger crackers
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 1:27 pm
by rubato
Photoshopped.
Question of the day: "What is the maximum possible size of a marine creature with an exoskeleton?"
Second question: "Many of the most diverse and successful animals are insects, why is the largest insect only 71 grams?."
yrs,
rubato
You'll need bigger crab trap
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 1:49 am
by RayThom
Here's what Snopes says about the giant crab.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/crabzilla/
Re: You'll need bigger crackers
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:28 pm
by wesw
glad we have snopes......
Re: You'll need bigger crackers
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 10:24 pm
by Crackpot
I swear I saw that Photo over a decade ago
Re: You'll need bigger crackers
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:23 pm
by wesw
well...., I guess that you d have to tow that sucker over to an outflow from a nuke power plant.
that should cook him properly....
then you d have to get out the jaws of life to pick the sucker.....
then.....
crabcakes for everyone!!!!!!!
Re: You'll need bigger crackers
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 8:00 pm
by MGMcAnick
Crackpot wrote:I swear I saw that Photo over a decade ago
Even the Snopes de-bunking post is from 2014.
I don't see the image on my screen. When I click on 'open image on a new tab' it says "service unavailable" .