Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?

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28th October 2020 10 mins Season 4 Episode 33

For some reason, animals keep evolving into things that look like crabs, independently, over and over again. What is it about the crab’s form that makes it so evolutionarily successful that non-crabs are apparently jealous of it?

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