Started by Inês Carvalho (@tidepoolkid) ·
everything keeps evolving into crabs
It's real! At least five separate times, crustaceans that weren't crabs ended up with a flattened crab body plan. The meme is barely an exaggeration.
5 sources · 19 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “carcinisation meme real”
- Ended at
- Convergent evolution
The Trail
- “carcinisation meme real” (google.com)
- Carcinisation (en.wikipedia.org)
- King crab (en.wikipedia.org)
not a true crab, it's a hermit crab relative that crabified
- Coconut crab (en.wikipedia.org)
- Convergent evolution (en.wikipedia.org)
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