10 Most Dangerous Crustaceans In The World

10 Most Dangerous Crustaceans In The World

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The 10 Most Dangerous Crustaceans In the World!

While most of us can’t stand creepy crawlers such as spiders and cockroaches on land, there are some monsters in the sea that are truly terrifying. These monsters are known as crustaceans—the critters of the sea!

Some of them boast giant pincers strong enough to rip your fingers off, and others are so poisonous, they can kill you in less than 10 minutes from a single sting. With this in mind, let’s take a look at 10 crustaceans you NEVER WANT TO COME ACROSS while exploring the ocean. Stick around to the end to find out which crustacean can live up to 100 years...yes, YOU HEARD RIGHT...100 years!
10. The Coconut Crab

The coconut crab is so monstrous and intimidating that the famous naturalist Charles Darwin had quite the strong disliking for it. Well, considering it looks like something right out of a horror novel, we can’t really blame him! This massive crab can grow to over three feet long and is believed to be the largest living arthropod capable of living on land.

What’s even more frightening is that scientists strongly believe that these titans could have been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of the aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart.

Yep, there’s a possibility that they might have eaten her body and dragged her bones down into their dens!

The coconut crab is truly an intimidating crustacean. Aside from its domineering size, this crab is naturally juiced up. And despite clocking in at no more than nine pounds, it can lift up to six times its own body weight.

No need for a gym membership, eyy big fella??

As the name suggests, coconut crabs snack mainly on coconuts...and that’s why they have such powerful claws to knock coconuts from branches, and then dismantle those hard shells with their pincers.

But during the dry season—when coconuts are few and far between—these voracious scavengers will eat anything and everything...and to some extent, hunt.

In fact, scientists were shocked to discover that these crabs actually attack and kill birds resting in treetops.

In a graphic, violent scene, the crabs were observed to break a birds’ wings using their pincers, and then drag them down to their underground burrows.

Now if that doesn't scare you spineless, then I don’t know what else will!!

9. The Colorful Mosaic Crab

At number 9, we have another crab on our list, but this fella right here comes in a pint-size version. He’s a member of the Xanthidate family; a group of crabs that love to live in coral rubble or near living reefs.

Despite their small size, they have an elongated fan-shaped body full of red color; with impressive mosaic patterns that add credence to its name. They also have black tips at the end of their pincers that easily distinguish them from other poisonous crabs. I mean, you can spot this guy from a mile away!

So what makes them so dangerous? Well, according to different studies, these guys have a high concentration of lethal toxins in the gut, as well as another toxin in their shell called saxitoxin.

The toxin is so powerful that gram for gram, it is 1000 times more deadly than cyanide! If you cook this fellal thinking you have a tasty delicacy of crab...think again, you might just find yourself paralyzed...and before you know it, heading straight to the morgue...
8. Isopods
Isopods are truly terrifying creatures. It's not so much their size, but rather how they feed on other animals in the deep blue sea.

Take for example the case of a large isopod that was found burrowing into a fish’s tongue and eating it to the point where it actually took the place of the tongue!!

Interestingly, the fish was able to survive the experience with no apparent harm other than the loss of its tongue to the parasite.

But if you’re a human...you probably wouldn’t want your tongue completely eaten out, would you? It’s not exactly...the conversation starter...

And the horror doesn’t end here;

In 2017, the world went crazy over the case of a 16-year-old boy from Australia called Sam Kanizay, who had his legs devoured by a swarm of scavenging isopods on Brighton beach.

[halbleavy]

Wait!? There wasn't an Australian Glock Crab that was far more lethal than it needs to be by following suit of every other creature on and in the waters of that Continent?

[k.]

Beloves life will sending her order in for this one I'm sure.