The iconic sideways walk of crabs may have evolved just once, in an ancestor that roamed Earth roughly 200 million years ago. That conclusion, published April 21 in eLife, comes from researchers who ...
Researchers have provided new insights into the evolutionary origin of sideways walking in crabs. Their study, published today as a Reviewed Preprint in eLife, presents the largest comparative dataset ...
Marine biologist Matt Slater explains why walking sideways is the fastest option for crabs ...