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Human arrival 'wiped out' Hawaii's unique crabs

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17 May 2011 Updated at 10:46 ET

Human arrival 'wiped out' Hawaii's unique crabs

Richard Black

Environment correspondent, BBC News

The crab would have looked rather like relatives found on other Pacific islands

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Land crabs unique to Hawaii, as big as a human fist and able to travel huge distances inland, were wiped out by the first human colonists around 1,000 years ago, scientists have deduced.

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