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, ...

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 ...

It’s okay if this weirds you out.

If you haven’t done a crab walk since summer camp, then it may be time to bring this old-school exercise back into your life. Yes, the move calls on you to do your best impression of a crustacean, but ...

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 ...