Take, for example, the coconut crab: a giant beast so well known for stealing things that it’s colloquially referred to as the “robber crab.” Coming in at an incredible nine pounds in weight ...

The extremely smooth motion of its legs conjures up images of lobsters or crabs (“Maakrapu” means “land crab” in Finnish), and is also reminiscent of Theo Jansen’s Strandbeesten.

But just before the second scientist can actually save the day, a terrifying beast emerges from the dark ... as well as a ...