696K views · 4.1K reactions | The bone-breaking Tasmanian Giant Crayfish can weigh up to 15 pounds and live more than 60 years......  Learn more about the Crayfish alongside Jeremy Wade on Dark Waters -- Friday at 10p on Discovery. | Discovery | Facebook

Northern Tasmanian residents will have a rare opportunity to see a Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish up close this weekend. The future of the world's largest freshwater invertebrate is one of the topics that will be discussed at tomorrow’s Resilient City Symposium at the Queen Victoria Museum at Inveresk, and the City of Launceston has a live specimen — a 23-year-old male named 'Lobby' — on loan from the Flowerdale Lobster Ponds. City of Launceston Environmental Scientist Kathryn Pugh said wil

I’ll never forget meeting this Tasmanian Giant Freshwater Crayfish today! I feel so lucky to have had my first encounter with one, and to have been in the right place at the right to make sure he stayed safe. These species are endangered from over harvesting and habitat destruction. And even though they’re protected, today’s log truck would have meant a certain doom.Even if you aren’t a truck, you’re still a car, so drive slowly and look around when you drive through animal habitat. This place b

698K views · 1.5K reactions | Australia is known for her unique wildlife and the Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish is no exception. | Animal Planet | Facebook

242K views · 3.5K reactions | The clock is ticking for the Tasmanian...