Why Crabs Keep Leaving the Sea for the Land

This episode is brought to you by the Music for Scientists album! Stream the album on major music services here: https://biglink.to/music-for-scientists. Check out the “For Your Love" music video here: https://youtu.be/YGjjvd34Cvc. Why do crabs keep leaving the ocean to live on land? When a species evolves from living in water to living on land it’s called terrestrialization, and it’s not an easy task. So why do the crabs keep doing it? Join Michael Aranda for look into why and how these crawly crustaceans are out for relocation. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Charles Copley, Jb Taishoff, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, LehelKovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://research.nhm.org/pdfs/31132/31132.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3926130/ https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/318099 https://jeb.biologists.org/content/221/21/jeb185421 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17279390/ http://www.sfzoo.org/animals/sculptures/coconut-crab.html https://www.nature.com/articles/30724 https://academic.oup.com/jcb/article-abstract/15/1/179/2418707 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7575764/ https://www.nature.com/articles/4401005a https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Locomotion-in-land-crabs%3A-Respiratory-and-cardiac-Herreidii-O%27mahoney/2d9d13d99b3a83c89d506ff298edc4e6e6a1f35d https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01632993 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2012.0596 https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/why-do-beached-whales-die-so-often/ https://jeb.biologists.org/content/221/21/jeb185421 https://research.nhm.org/pdfs/31132/31132.pdf Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caribbean_hermit_crab.JPG https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidstanleytravel/24952104493 https://www.scirp.org/pdf/OJE_2013051316263259.pdf https://www.flickr.com/photos/moondance38/10161169963/in/photolist-4CChPi-gtUDPz-7FE2Wu-dg6JhE-QVuEtv-cLVTtd