There are roughly 7,000 species of true crabs on Earth, and nearly all of them scuttle sideways. That quirky gait is so universal it seems inseparable from being a crab. But a growing body of research ...

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that everything eventually evolves into a crab. Not quite everything, of course, but crab-like forms do appear suspiciously often in the animal kingdom, ...

Researchers have provided new insights into the evolutionary origin of sideways walking in crabs. Their study, published today as a Reviewed Preprint in eLife, presents the largest comparative dataset ...