Bering Sea trawlers suddenly pulled up record numbers of hybrid crabs — now we know why

Avery Johnson · 13 likes

nature adapting faster than our policy, as usual

Imogen Clarke · 0 likes

a tale as old as the anthropocene

Solar Otter · 4 likes

crabs out here making new crabs. carcinization speedrun

Maja Wiśniewska · 8 likes

everything becomes crab eventually, this is just a shortcut 🦀

Milan Visser · 0 likes

the snow crab collapse a few years ago was devastating for alaskan fishing towns

Ethan Brooks · 0 likes

billions of crabs vanished, mostly starved from warm water metabolism

Quiet Panda · 0 likes

are the hybrids fertile? that changes everything for the populations

Yui Tanaka · 8 likes

some are, apparently, which is why scientists are paying attention

Ethan Brooks · 0 likes

Can we eat them though. asking for my stomach

Ananya Rao · 1 likes

they're legal to land in some fisheries, taste is supposedly in between