Millions of red crabs are coming out of their burrows on Christmas Island in Australia to begin one of their largest migrations in years. With the crabs now moving toward the sea, traffic delays ...
Nature photographer Justin Gilligan jumped into the cold waters in Port Phillip bay to capture the event during which the crabs moult their tough exoskeletons. This makes them easy bait for predators ...
But their equally colourful neighbours, the blue crabs, are about to begin their own less-publicised annual mass movement. With a much more restricted habitat on the remote Australian territory ...
More than 120 million flame crabs are making their way to the ocean in Western Australia from the jungles of Christmas Island. Authorities opened a bridge for them to safely cross a road in the ...
A tropical paradise, Christmas Island is white sand, turquoise sea, coconut trees and all manner of extraordinary wildlife. But the future of all is in jeopardy, and a proliferation of ocean plastic ...