Crab

crab

crab

Vista styled crab layout

I like Chili crab!

So this is a mantis shrimp.

Put a crab inside it.

And mantis shrimp are called mantis shrimp after the praying mantises, which also have a fast feeding appendage.

Crab chewing is actually really fascinating.

She looks like a little crab

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

I regard crab as a great delicacy.

He was an old crab, HE was.'

And this is a spearing mantis shrimp, or stomatopod.

The red king crab is a large crustacean.

So, the bacteria grows hair on the crab.

This was how mantis shrimps make these very fast strikes.

I'm going to show you the mantis shrimp approaching the snail.

Like when my son transformed into a praying mantis for Halloween.

So, mantis shrimp come in two varieties there are spearers and smashers.

'Hold your tongue, Ma!' said the young Crab, a little snappishly.

Turning rocks over revealed this crab spider grappling with a beetle.

DG You can see, here's a crab that lives down there.

Now, they normally retract as soon as a crab touches them.

River crab is héxiè, is the phonogram for harmonization, for censorship.

I can cook things you wouldn't believe. I cook crab, lobster.

And mantis shrimp are officially the fastest measured feeding strike of any animal system.

I have a hermit crab named Hawthorne, who doesn't get a lot of respect as a hermit crab, so he kind of wishes he were a great white shark.

That praying mantis is made from a single sheet of paper no scotch tape, no cuts.

This is a recording I made of a mantis shrimp that's found off the coast of California.

This is slowed down 20 fold, and the crab just zooms across that simulated debris.

So, actually, I started working on what's called the mantis shrimp a few years ago because they make sound.

And what he showed in mantis shrimp is that they use what's called a catch mechanism, or click mechanism.

And basically we took hay and crab apples and made barbecue sauce out of those two ingredients.

And you can see that in this ghost crab, from the beaches of Panama and North Carolina.

Now, the other type of mantis shrimp is the smasher stomatopod, and these guys open up snails for a living.

So, as soon as a crab touches them, they retract down into their shells, just like your fingernails.

And we also found this spectacular yeti crab that lives near boiling hot hydrothermal vents at Easter Island.

He may be no larger than a pin head, but this crab larva is an arrow worm's worst nightmare.

The surimi sticks of crabmeat, or is being sold as crab meat, is white fish that's being dyed with cochineal.

This veliger larvae will turn into a snail this zoea, into a crab and this planula, into a clytia jelly.

So the next and final question was, well, how much force does a mantis shrimp produce if they're able to break open snails?

72 percent of the population has such scars, but most don't shed the gear, things like lobster traps and crab pots.

These long filaments that you see on the back of the crab are actually created by the product of that bacteria.

And while I was struggling to figure out how and why mantis shrimp, or stomatopods, make sound, I started to think about their appendages.