PICTURES It's Crabzilla! Britain's biggest-ever crab leaves vistors shell-shocked

• Tuesday, 16 February 2010
• Alexandra Wenman
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The giant spider crab - which would've been eaten if caught in Japan - is on show in Birmingham

At 5ft long, this Japanese Spider crab is the biggest ever to be seen in Britain and he'll be on display at Birmingham's National Sea Life centre until the end of March, when he will be taken to a new home in Belgium.

Crabzilla is 3m (10ft) from claw to claw and his body is the size of a basketball. 

Sea Life's Graham Burrows says, "He dwarfs the other crabs - but he's not aggressive. It's rumoured these crabs can grow to4 metres - big enough to straddle a car."

See PICTURES of Crabzilla here