Like the red-footed booby, her blood would have lured the coconut crabs living in the island’s underground burrows. Many believe that she crash-landed in the Pacific ocean during her round-the-world flight, where she drowned. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 2.0 Olivier Lejade. Source: … Image: fearlessRich Did Coconut Crabs Eat Amelia Earhart? Posted on Monday, 26 August, 2019 | 22 comments. A theory Amelia Earhart was eaten by fierce coconut crabs continues to float around the Internet following a recent viral video of a coconut crab attacking a bird, according to Biz Pac Review. A scientist captured video of a coconut crab, the same type of crab that may have devoured Amelia Earhart's remains, catching and eating a bird. They’ve been known to hunt and kill birds, to tear apart live pigs, and even to cannibalize the corpses of other coconut crabs. GIANT crabs may have picked apart the body of famous 20th Century pilot Amelia Earhart after she crash landed on a remote island never to be seen … Researchers have suggested that the aviator's remains were dragged off by coconut crabs … Image: Rebecca Dominguez/Flickr.com Amelia Earhart Image: Wiki In 1940, researchers discovered a fraction of a skeleton on the island that matched the description of Amelia Earhart. They’re hideous and gross , and they ate Amelia Earhart. Coconut crabs play a key role in TIGHAR’s hypothesis about what happened to Amelia Earhart after she and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared on July 2, 1937, on the third-to-last leg of their world flight. Colossal crabs may hold clue to Amelia Earhart fate. I put forward that they also ate her navigator that no one ever talks about, Fred Noonan. However, a 2007 experiment run by TIGHAR attempted to see if coconut crabs might haul away the bones of a pig carcass, and although many of them came and fed on it, no large bones were lugged off into the forest. The mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart has baffled historians and scientists for decades. Earhart, it’s believed, crashed on the island and was left either bleeding or dead on its beach. Some believe Amelia Earhart’s body was eaten by coconut crabs, which can grow to be 3ft and have the strength to crack open a coconut. It’s widely believed that this was the body of Amelia Earhart – and that she had been torn apart by coconut crabs. So, though it's possible Amelia Earhart was eaten and her bones dispersed by coconut crabs, nobody really knows. Coconut crabs are the world's largest land-living arthropods. Coconut crabs can grow up to 3 feet, climb trees and have claws that can heft items up to 60 pounds. What we do know about Amelia Earhart’s disappearance: She and her navigator, Edward Noonan, were completing a tricky stretch from New Guinea to … Coconut crabs are three-foot-long, tree-climbing monsters with the strength of lion’s jaws in their pincers. Amelia Earhart giant crabs theory resurfaces.