Have you ever heard that everything will look like a crab at some point? It's not that wrong: some creatures are in some way turning into crabs! It's something we call carcinization, a process where evolution realized crabs were really cool, so it decided to make other creatures similar to them. And that has already happened at least five times – within at least 5 different groups of animals that are not crabs.

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Spiny king crab: Moondigger, CC BY-SA 2.5 [ Ссылка ], [ Ссылка ]
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Homo neanderthalensis: Matteo De Stefano/MUSE, [ Ссылка ]
Trichopeltarion greggi: Kevmin, [ Ссылка ]
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Munida compacta: Macpherson E, Chan T-Y, Kumar AB, Rodríguez-Flores PC (2020) On some squat lobsters from India (Decapoda, Anomura, Munididae), with description of a new species of Paramunida Baba, 1988. ZooKeys 965: 17-36, [ Ссылка ]_(10.3897-zookeys.965.55213)_Figure_3.jpg
Wolfeetal2016biorxiv: Joanna M. Wolfe, Allison C. Daley, David A. Legg, Gregory D. Edgecombe, [ Ссылка ]
Eocarcinus: Gerhard Scholtz, [ Ссылка ]
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Callichimaera: Javier Luque, [ Ссылка ]
Callichimaera: Image by Oksana Vernygora, supplied by Javier Luque who commissioned the drawing [ Ссылка ]
Spotted Tail Quoll: Michael J Fromholtz, [ Ссылка ]

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