ALIEN-LOOKING monster crabs with a metre long claw-span arrived in the county yesterday.
Nine Japanese spider crabs found a home at the Scarborough Sea Life Centre.
"Even though they can spread their claws as wide as I can stretch my arms, they're actually just babies," said curator Paul Bullimore.
"A fully grown Japanese spider crab in the wild can have a three-metre span. That's big enough to straddle the average family saloon car with room to spare."
The crabs are to be star attractions in a display called Claws, which will also house tropical hermit crabs, horseshoe crabs and bizarre decorator crabs among others.
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