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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