A real Red king crab in the wild

A real Red king crab in the wild

LifeSpan: 20-30 years

Diet: Smaller crabs eat algae, small worms, small clams, and other small animals. Larger crabs eat a much wider range of items including worms, clams, mussels, barnacles, crabs, fish, sea stars, sand dollars, and brittle stars

Habitat: the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska, and south to British Columbia, Canada

Species: 3 species

Fun Fact: The King crab has 5 pairs of legs

Fun Fact: The heaviest king crab ever found weighed 28 pound

Fun Fact: King crabs cannot swim as adults. They move around by walking along the ocean floor