Carcinisation - Wikipedia
Carcinisation (American English: carcinization) is a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan. The term was introduced into evolutionary biology by L. A. Borradaile, who described it as "the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab". [2]
Why is everything turning into crabs? | Interviews - The Naked Scientists
2024年1月19日 · Carcinisation, later dubbed the ‘return to crab’ phenomenon by strange parts of the internet, was a term coined in 1916 by zoologist Lancelot Alexander Borradaile. It refers to a case of convergent evolution, involving the process of non-crab-like animals evolving crab-like features over time.
Why everything eventually becomes a crab - Popular Science
2020年12月14日 · In the next million years the crab shape may no longer be in evolutionary vogue, and crustaceans may ‘decarcinize’ and move away from that shape. So while the ultimate evolutionary body shape...
Why evolution loves a crab: the science of carcinization - NPR
2024年9月18日 · Evolution keeps making crabs. In fact, it's happened so often that there's a special scientific term for an organism turning crab-like: carcinization. But how many times has it happened, and why?
Why Do Animals Keep Evolving into Crabs? - Scientific American
2023年6月1日 · Animals with crabby forms come in many sizes and thrive in a wide array of habitats, from mountains to the deep sea. Their diversity makes it tricky to pin down a single common benefit for their...
Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs, and Scientists Don't Know …
2021年10月14日 · It's true: Crabs keep turning up in nature, and it's bothering scientists so much that they've been given federal grants to get to the bottom of it. The phenomenon is so widely known that it's been...
‘Crabification’ Explains Why Animals Keep Turning Into Crustaceans
2022年12月16日 · Research reveals that five different groups of decapods have independently evolved to have distinctly crab-like traits. This is how “crabification” works.
crab, Gecarcoidea natalis (Pocock, 1888), on Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). The return to land of this species has been recorded on a number of occasions, and observations are unequivocal.
CA Dungeness crab season gets Jan. 5 start date - Ventura County …
6 天之前 · The crab, which attains a width of 9 inches across the back, is one of the largest edible crabs along the Pacific Coast, according to the department. The official start time is 12:01 a.m. on Jan. 5.
Chef Joe Isidori shares recipes for crab dip, truffled rigatoni and ...
3 天之前 · Directions 1. Place 2-3 tablespoons of strawberry purée in the bottom of a champagne flute. 2. Top off the glass with sparkling cider and garnish with a whole strawberry on the rim of the glass.