Crab Autopsy Results

[thescienceguy]

DID YOU KNOW THAT...

The crab monsters aren't really like crabs at all!

Really, they're more like bugs - grasshoppers and spiders - and a group of creepy crawlies known as Solpugida. Soul-Pyoo-gi-da! Also known as Camel Spiders, Wind Scorpions, or Sun Spiders. They're like spiders, but they've got ten legs - just like our monstrous neighbors

Comments

[dontcallmeangus]

You know it, Bill! First, though, we've got those dead crab parts to look at, see what we can find.

Anyone lookin' at this, we'll post up what we learn as we learn it.

[thescienceguy]

You know it. But I gotta tell you, I'm having some doubts. I mean, these things are just so... well... foreign. Hard to say if they'll react at all like they're supposed to to anything.

At least we can get a dissection, and it's not a rubbery smelly frog. Ok it's still smelly. But you get the point.

[just_like_nii]

Wow, I didn't know any of that!

[thescienceguy]

Glad I could be of help!

Lemme tell you, it's alot easier to count their legs when they're not running at you at top speed.

[just_like_nii]

Did you find one that was dead?

[thescienceguy]

Sorta, I got a couple to check out from a helpful lady named Freudia.

[megane_mode]

... That was highly educational for no reason whatsoever. It almost makes me nauseous.

[thescienceguy]

Man you should be smelling these things, talk about nauseous.

Nothing educational is without reason! You never know what you might need to know.

[patchwork_phd]

You put it more eloquently and interestingly than I could!

[thescienceguy]

Heh, well thanks! I do try.

[doctor_of_time]

That was wonderfully helpful. Excellent work.

...And that's a brilliant word, isn't it? Solpugida. I quite like that. I ought to start using it more often, I think.

[thescienceguy]

Yeah it's a good one! I'm still partial to ovoviviparous, though.