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1 - Armor 2 - Don't need much to survive 3 - Pincer means capable of holding things 4 - No bones and ligament means more place for power muscles 5 - Can breath both in and out the water 6 - Peak evolution
I love the implied exasperation of the title. Like some marine biologist is just looking around at his textbooks and in a moment sudden realization exclaims "why do things keep evolving into crabs!?"
Yes makes me wonder if you were to account for all the life forms in space how many would be crab people. I guess that star trek TNG episode of interdimensional crabs that were abducting the crew isn't too unrealistic after all.
We live downtown in a coastal city so we were far but not too far from the sea. One night, we heard weird scraping sounds from the backyard. My dad and I decided to check it out. We inspected the area with a flashlight and found a large blue shelled creature with very long legs. Turns out, a coconut crab found its way to our backyard in the residantial area. So yeah, you're not alone in fearing coconut crabs.
Bro I had no idea there were so many crab impostors out there but from now one when I see one I’m callin em out fr it’s time to stand up for the true crabs
Well, my character is in a band with the character of another player in a tabletop rpg. After having read that I went to urge him to name the band Cretaceous Crab Revolution
It is not only the crab form that seems to be a "strange attractor" . Think how much the sea mammals look similar to a fish when you consider the form of it's ancestor as a land mammal. It is incredible how the evolution converges to the optimal shape for a certain environment (water) even if the origin may be very different.
Humanity: What's the deal with things evolving into crabs every so often? Nature: You may not like it, but... **points at crab** this is exactly what peak performance looks like.
@@Kromosios they probably want to choose the big cool land builds like bears or lions, and ignore the ones that they think are "weak" like insects or fish
I have noticed that in the past, athletes would warm up by running forwards but nowadays, it is common to see athletes running sideways. If my hypothesis (based on extrapolating such behaviours ) is correct, within the next 10 years we can expect to see athlete's warm ups start to include crab like hand motions. This will filter down to general population as well as inevitably being adapted by the military as the most efficient way of moving and combat. (It is worth noting that Karate already favours a side-on stance!)
You know what would be nightmare fuel, a coconut crab with scorpion Tails, spider poison, and shells that could get hit by a rock the size of a bucket running towards you at 25 kilometers per hour
“hey we found a new organism” “alright make sure to wake up early before it turns into a crab” *wakes up at 12pm* *phone starts ringing* “i have some bad news”
So I'm going to assume this means that if we're going to meet an alien specie, there's a relatively good chance they'll be an advanced form of crab life form
I don't think so. For Life to develop tools they need thumbs, and for them to use primordial tools they would need to utilize them to survive. So I think most species will be humanoid, like those in mass effect.
as a casual subscriber of this channel, I'm quite surprised when i found out this video has bahasa indonesia subtitle. what a nice surprise considering our language isn't so popular
I'm disappointed with the lack of mention of the pubic louse (yes, they're lice which parasitize your pubic hair), also known as the crab louse. In facts, lots of lice resemble crabs for some reason, like the hog louse (Haematopinus suis). They have pincers and all.
The phone's blue light mutates the brains of people making the people act like crabs Then they start evolving into crabs because they gave crab brains The people's hands come together and everyone looks like a crab This is a rare disease caused by blue light phones and should not be worried about
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Why is my skin suddenly hard? Why are my fingers so sharp? They weren’t like this last night. Why do I want to eat my children? This video has answered my questions
Because they are capable of moving on land, in water, borrowing underneath sand, they don't have a tail for other animals to grab them from, they can climb trees, they are more flexible. Is that enough? Crab shape is basically hybrid shape.
The second after he said "Cretaceous Crab Revolution" I was like "Uhh, such a cool name for my indie band!" And then he said "If you have a band that started and need a name..." And that just my current situation.
It sucks, my neighbors evolved into crabs just last week, the company car grew claws on the headlights, and even today my sandwich felt suspiciously crunchy...
I've watched a lot of these videos by now but this is the first one to make me hungry. I actually found myself looking at fascinating fossils and mentally calculating roughly how many millions of years you'd have to wait for butter or even a recognizable lemon.
weird unscientific and sounds silly but when my father died I tried to imagine where his energy went and all I kept seeing in my mind was a crab shuffling around in the sand on the ocean floor.
