Nagasaki study traces crabs’ sideways walk to 200-million-year evolutionary leap
The sideways shuffle of crabs—their iconic lateral scuttle—didn’t just evolve by accident. It emerged from a single evolutionary leap 200 million years ago, according to a landmark study by researchers at Nagasaki University, published this week. By tracing the movement patterns of 50 crab species and mapping them onto a genetic family tree, the team … Read more