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Hey Short Waivers, it's Emily Kwong, and today our story starts with a Tik-Tock.

Well, really, multiple Tik-Tok. Well, really multiple Tik-Tok.

There is this meme that everything is slowly turning into a crab, including...

The days have shown that numerous species of crusation have independently evolved the flat rounded shells and tucked

in tails of a typical crab.

Okay, wings have evolved four times. Crabs have evolved five.

Scientists aren't exactly sure why this is happening, but there must be some environmental

push for these crustaceans to evolve a crab form.

So the ideal form is crab.

The comments on these videos are hilarious.

People are asking, are crabs the final boss of evolution?

Do aliens look like crabs?

When will I become a crab?

And we wanted to talk to the person whose research

sparked this crab existential crisis.

Harvey or Luque, or Havi for short.

He's a senior research associate at the University of Cambridge in the UK and curator of crustaceans

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