“The exact timing and speed of the migration is determined by the phase of the moon,” Parks Australia notes. “Red crabs always spawn before dawn on a receding high-tide during the last quarter of the ...

With so much in the news about exoplanets and UFO sightings, it’s easy to forget the ocean and its shores are full of things that seem genuinely alien. So very many things. The red crabs of Christmas ...

It’s that time of year again and no, we’re not talking about the holidays. The red crab migration season has begun on Australia’s Christmas Island, when the streets get quite literally covered in ...

Every year, red crabs overtake roads and homes as they migrate from their forest dwellings to the sea, where they spawn their eggs "Everyone here really values the crabs, and [the migration] is seen ...

This is the jaw-dropping moment a “biblical plague” of 50 million crabs head to the ocean to breed. The swarm of cannibalistic critters shut down roads from the jungle to the coast on Christmas Island ...

An annual crab migration on Australia's Christmas Island has been closing roads for the past week as 120 million of the crustaceans make their way from forest to the Indian Ocean beach to reproduce.

Nov. 18 (UPI) --Highways and roads have been shut down on an Australian island for an annual occurrence: the migration of millions of red crabs. The red crabs of Christmas Island migrate every autumn ...

It's one of Australia's most remarkable natural displays, and takes place over five or six nights this time each year.

In this image supplied by Parks Australia, a young boy walks amongst red crabs during their annual migration, Oct. 19, 2025 on Christmas Island, Australia. (Parks Australia via AP) MELBOURNE, ...

CHRISTMAS ISLAND, Australia - Millions of red crabs have emerged from their burrows and the rainforests on Australia's Christmas Island to begin their annual migration to the ocean, leading to quite a ...