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. #brightside Credit: Spiny king crab: Moondigger, CC BY-SA 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spiny_king_crab_md.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/: Homo neanderthalensis: Matteo De Stefano/MUSE, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Homo_neanderthalensis_-_reconstruction_-_MUSE.jpg Trichopeltarion greggi: Kevmin, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trichopeltarion_greggi_SR_EC_07-01-01_A.jpg CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/: 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, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munida_compacta_(10.3897-zookeys.965.55213)_Figure_3.jpg Wolfeetal2016biorxiv: Joanna M. Wolfe, Allison C. Daley, David A. Legg, Gregory D. Edgecombe, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wolfeetal2016biorxiv-029.jpg Eocarcinus: Gerhard Scholtz, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eocarcinus_reconstructon.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/: Callichimaera: Javier Luque, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Callichimaera_perplexa_02_Photo_by_Javier_Luque.jpg Callichimaera: Image by Oksana Vernygora, supplied by Javier Luque who commissioned the drawing https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Callichimaera_perplexa_Luque_et_al_2019_by_Oksana_Vernygora.tif Spotted Tail Quoll: Michael J Fromholtz, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spotted_Tail_Quoll_2011.jpg Animation is created by Bright Side. —————————————————————————————- Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz —————————————————————————————- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru —————————————————————————————- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me

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