We were hoping that was just a tiny trash can but, no, it's a coconut crab, which is the biggest arthropod that lives on land.

We were hoping that was just a tiny trash can but, no, it's a coconut crab , which is the biggest arthropod that lives on land.

The same went for the basketball-size coconut crab (see picture), the world's biggest land crab, of which Christmas Island has the world's largest population.