Giant carnivorous crab twist in search for Amelia Earhart

A joint team from Purdue University and the Archaeological Legacy Institute has arrived on Nikumaroro Island in Kiribati to investigate a mysterious object that some believe could be the wreckage of Earhart's aircraft, hoping to solve a disappearance that has baffled investigators for nearly 90 years. After a five-day, 1,500km voyage across the South Pacific, the team began clearing a path through dense vegetation to reach the so-called Taraia Object, encountering several giant coconut crabs along the way. The crabs, the world's largest land-dwelling crustaceans, are among the reasons the 17-member expedition will spend nights aboard its ship rather than on the uninhabited atoll. Earhart and her co-pilot vanished on a flight around the world in 1937, and despite several search missions, neither their remains nor that of the plane have ever been found.