Showing posts with label Japanese spider crab. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese spider crab. Show all posts

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Shadow Shot Sunday

I found this guy hanging around the Museum
of Natural History. It's a Japanese spider
crab (Macrocheira kampferi), which can be
13 feet (4 meters) from the tip of one
outstretched leg to another. Pretty impressive—
and it throws a mean shadow too!



[To see more Sunday shadows, go to Tracy's great meme.]
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