Evolution keeps making crabs. In fact, it's happened so often that there's a special scientific term for an organism turning crab-like:... Evolution keeps making crabs. We asked a scientist why ...

Cretapsara athanata: The first crab in amber from the dinosaur era is spectacularly preserved, including delicate tissues like antennae, mouthparts lined with fine hairs, large compound eyes, and even ...

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In 2015, two researchers stumbled across a piece of amber jewelry in a market in Tengchong, China, that was found by miners in Myanmar. The piece has a young, five-millimeter-long crab embedded in it.

An ancient crab fossil dubbed by researchers as the "Forbidden Dorito," has helped to unlock some mysteries of crab evolution. Dr. Javier Luque, a senior research associate at the University of ...

Cretapsara athanata: The first crab in amber from the dinosaur era is spectacularly preserved, including delicate tissues like antennae, mouthparts lined with fine hairs, large compound eyes, and even ...