The Crabs Are Coming

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5 ай бұрын

We made this video in partnership with the Bik Lab at University of Georgia and the National Science Foundation.
As the waters warm in the deep sea around Antarctica, ecosystem-crushing crabs are able to live closer and closer to the continent.
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- Continental shelf: the area of seabed around a large landmass where the sea is relatively shallow compared with the open ocean.
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Aronson, Richard B., et al. “Prospects for the Return of Shell-Crushing Crabs to Antarctica.” Journal of Biogeography, vol. 42, no. 1, 6 Oct. 2014, pp. 1-7, doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12414
Griffiths, Huw J., et al. “Antarctic Crabs: Invasion or Endurance?” PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 7, 3 July 2013, p. e66981, doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone....
Thatje, Sven, et al. “CHALLENGING the COLD: CRABS RECONQUER the ANTARCTIC.” Ecology, vol. 86, no. 3, Mar. 2005, pp. 619-625, doi.org/10.1890/04-0620
“From Deep to Shallow Seas: Antarctic King Crab on the Move.” Ecology, vol. 101, no. 11, 23 July 2020, doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3125
Thatje, Sven, and Wolf E. Arntz. “Antarctic Reptant Decapods: More than a Myth?” Polar Biology, vol. 27, no. 4, 1 Mar. 2004, pp. 195-201, doi.org/10.1007/s00300-003-05...

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@Camphreneas 5 ай бұрын

*_The crab meta just keeps growing stronger, and stronger by the year_*

@jito7377 5 ай бұрын

Everything will evolve into crabs. Sanderson was right.

@sizanogreen9900 5 ай бұрын

It is only a matter of time because it grows dominant on land as well. My bet is on it eclipsing the human meta there in an update or two.

@experience741 5 ай бұрын

Tierzoo

@Gooblification 5 ай бұрын

@@jito7377 You will be crab. I will be crab. We will all become crab. Praise the Crab.

@vampiric-ram3824 5 ай бұрын

@@sizanogreen9900theirs already a type of gaint hermit crab without a shell that's hugeeeee that's dominating some ereas of coastal land

@Maothen 5 ай бұрын

Fun fact: Magnesium also has a depressant effect on the central nervous system of us, humans.

@killertaker3990 5 ай бұрын

My family uses Magnesium as a sleeping pill. Actually works wonders

@MrJacobElias 5 ай бұрын

So eating crabs can be an anti-depressant cause they have less magnesium in them?... Not what you said... but that was what i heard.

@deleted_handle 5 ай бұрын

@@MrJacobElias wouldn't that just fill your stomach?

@NinaDmytraczenko 5 ай бұрын

... Are we crabs??

@namenamington 5 ай бұрын

@@NinaDmytraczenko We are the crab people! Crab people, crab people, crab people!

@Jason-sq2up 5 ай бұрын

Him: "An army of crabs is about to invade one of the last crab-free places on earth" Me, sitting in my crab-free bedroom: 😮

@WindsorMason 5 ай бұрын

Or so you think it's free of crabs...

@chrismullin8304 5 ай бұрын

Abstinence is the only way to prevent them.

@mosesetafuna5958 4 ай бұрын

@@chrismullin8304too late 😢

@GachaWolf81900 4 ай бұрын

NOOOOO

@dannyfultz2810 4 ай бұрын

Florida

@attilioq4069 5 ай бұрын

There's also a problem with crabs in Italy. The blue crab, an invasive species, has started colonizing the Mediterranean Sea because of the rising temperatures. It's already starting to wreck the habitat and the local fishing economy.

@k4rli_475 5 ай бұрын

can humans eat them?

@hypershadow5g 5 ай бұрын

species is both singular and plural.

@ender0998 5 ай бұрын

I mean that's just life tbh. The better species wins at natural selection. It's just like colonization 🤷

@greenmario3011 5 ай бұрын

Which is weird considering how delicious they are. Convincing people to eat an invasive species en masse is usually a good first step for controlling the population.

@robertshea2010 5 ай бұрын

Green crab from Europe are causing similar issues in Eastern Canada.

@_Smarf_ 5 ай бұрын

King crabs are not crabs. King crabs are a taxon of decapod crustaceans. King crabs are generally thought to be derived from hermit crab ancestors. King crabs are the most widely quoted example of carcinisation. Carcinisation (American English: carcinization) is a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan. 🦀

@Napoleonic_S 5 ай бұрын

King crab is a 100 ton assault class battletech 😂

@danilooliveira6580 5 ай бұрын

a lot of names we use for animals actually only refer to a small taxa, but are used more popularly to refer to other closely related animals. that is why we have things like "true bugs", "true eagles", "true crabs", etc.

@oskark7676 5 ай бұрын

But they taste like crab.

@MidnightDoom777 5 ай бұрын

All will become crab

@proloycodes 5 ай бұрын

just use 'it' bro

@dchuhay 5 ай бұрын

so what I'm hearing is that we need to allow crab fishing around Antarctica

@GreatBigBore 5 ай бұрын

Lol we might have to move the entire industry down there, Alaska just recently had some catastrophe, like the entire season had to be cancelled or sth

@dangerfly 5 ай бұрын

I for one welcome our delicious overlords.

@enzonavarro8550 5 ай бұрын

Just call chinese fisher boats there and let them scoop every crab they see!

@sizanogreen9900 5 ай бұрын

@@enzonavarro8550 they'll just drag their nets along the seafloor and take *everything*

@cageybee7221 5 ай бұрын

that would probably do more damage to the ecosystem than the crabs, the crabs seem to leave about 25% of the existing life in their wake. a fishermans' dragnet will leave 10% if we're lucky..

@Barwasser 5 ай бұрын

*adds Magnesium to the water *CAN YOU FEEL IT, MR CRABS?*

@xavierkang3679 5 ай бұрын

So Crab Rave will be played by the crabs when they infest the final island… like a victory song 😂

@doggo7078 5 ай бұрын

'Crabs are everywhere' haha Perfect timing. Tierzoo released his video on the crab tierlist this week

@krizcillz 3 ай бұрын

almost like there's no original thought on youtube

@Spacegamer1250 5 ай бұрын

Same problem up here in Alaska, warming temperatures is making the safe cold waters where fish lay eggs warm enough for crabs to come up and ear all the eggs. Amplifying the problem that is already huge with our overfishing of sealife on the coast of the state.

@carsonhunt4642 4 ай бұрын

Don’t forget the increased whale populations absolutely wreaking havok on the native salmon. Whales are venturing further up river than ever recorded to hunt them

@bvbxiong5791 5 ай бұрын

sounds like Red Lobster about to add endless king crabs to the menu.

@TheDeadEyeSamurai 5 ай бұрын

*Grabs shell crusher, butter and lime I'm doing my part!

@kimono38 5 ай бұрын

Sound like I need to attend more crab buffet to save the ocean

@bottasheimfe5750 5 ай бұрын

I love the way you drew the crabs.

@yuehuang3419 5 ай бұрын

These crab puns are crawling out of hand. We need to get a pinch of the situation before its claw scraps the bottom of Antarctica.

@ydrib6086 5 ай бұрын

my brain when i read this: pettah the crab is here

@Funkycorgiz 5 ай бұрын

Petition to welcome crabs as our new overlords

@garg4531 5 ай бұрын

I for one welcome our new crab overlords

@Geckoreo 5 ай бұрын

all hail crabs!

@Legendary-nebula 5 ай бұрын

Down give up so easily we can out Crab the 🦀

@anomalocaris_man 5 ай бұрын

what about us shrimps

@LightBusterX 5 ай бұрын

Dr Zoidberg wants to know your location.

@andrewfox6539 5 ай бұрын

Just when we thought we were safe... Zoidberg

@prettypic444 4 ай бұрын

so what you're saying is, Humans have given Antarctica a catastrophic case of crabs

@TherandomshitstormerCXVII 5 ай бұрын

We really need an octonauts episode about this

@jasonwalker9471 4 ай бұрын

There kind of has been, even if it wasn't about this specific subtopic. There were invasive... ?starfish? I think it was, that were invading a reef. The Octonauts had to stop them before they ate the whole thing. Same idea, different invasive species.

@TherandomshitstormerCXVII 3 ай бұрын

@@jasonwalker9471 oh shit, guess we should just start sending them to space bc we haven’t discovered much in the ocean recently

@TherandomshitstormerCXVII 29 күн бұрын

@@jasonwalker9471 how about the octonauts have to stop a massive Nazi invasion style army of crabs lead by a mutant crab Hitler based off destoroyah from the Godzilla movies, the octonauts will try desperately to stop them but there closing in on all sides, they don’t have enough manpower to stop the crab Nazis, until they’re contacted by nerds from various scientists from across the world who have recently made a special boat that freezes sea water and a whole team of them can build a glacier in a few weeks, they get mass production of those boats but crab Hitler finds out and attempts to ruin their plans, he manages to break into the octopod and nearly kills captain barnacles before peso and kwazii makes him change his ways by talking him out of it, however crab Hitler has been making crocodile tears when he was talking to peso and kwazii and kills the captain before peso grabs a jackhammer from nowhere and kills crab hitler

@GreatBigBore 5 ай бұрын

Ok, but you say “crabs” throughout, although I keep hearing “true crabs” in contrast to “crab-like” in all the other “everything is crabs” videos. I’d be interested to know whether everything you say applies generally to crab-like things or “true” crabs, or whatever. Especially the magnesium thing-does that apply to everything with a chitinous exoskeleton, or just certain species of “crab-like” animals (you mentioned king crabs, which @LindsayNikole says isn’t a “true” crab)

@martinketchum 5 ай бұрын

I think thing applied to all crab-functioning creatures

@GreatBigBore 5 ай бұрын

@@martinketchum But I would wonder then why only crab-functioning creatures and not their relatives with chitinous exoskeletons like lobsters

@xaropevic7918 5 ай бұрын

Also curious

@fariesz6786 5 ай бұрын

@@GreatBigBoremy guess is that it could be true for all larger arthropods. or maybe it's just that one species or a handful of species, and all of them happen to have crab habitus

@fariesz6786 5 ай бұрын

..crabitus

@delvinsano8833 5 ай бұрын

everything really turns into crabs

@microska2656 5 ай бұрын

Crab: the peak form of evolution.

@delvinsano8833 5 ай бұрын

@@microska2656 ultimate life form

@CommunistNY 5 ай бұрын

Even our tools are crabs. (i.e Tongs)

@lenarianmelon4634 5 ай бұрын

In this case literally as they get eaten

@Vtarngpb 5 ай бұрын

Crab people, crab people! Taste like crab, talk like people!

@Kohl293 5 ай бұрын

Considering how successful the crab model has been if we find aliens, some will probably be crabs

@RJ_Ehlert 5 ай бұрын

The mass extinction event caused by Crabs.

@_Smarf_ 5 ай бұрын

Crabs didn't warm the oceans, we did.

@mimikiya6404 5 ай бұрын

@@_Smarf_ no the planet did it’s naturally to the planet to warm up There no way ice age happened non naturally happening with their is no way humans did it

@bradtrooper5978 5 ай бұрын

@@mimikiya6404 Earth has experienced cold periods (informally referred to as “ice ages,” or "glacials") and warm periods (“interglacials”) on roughly 100,000-year cycles for at least the last 1 million years. Modern climate change does not follow this cycle. The Climate has changed over time do to natural causes, But the way the climate is changing now is not. Forests can disappear naturally, But it does not mean the deforestation that is happening now is natural. I'm not saying it's the end of the world, Or it's completely harmless. There is a big spectrum between those ends.

@YourLocalCapybara 4 ай бұрын

Can’t wait to see the battle of the penguins vs crabs

@rejvaik00 5 ай бұрын

_"And I for one welcome our crab overlords"_

@EEE-1409 5 ай бұрын

This is actually so sad to hear my god-

@geekjokes8458 5 ай бұрын

it's not the "haha funny crab" like people are treating it, it's more like "WE ARE DESTROYING THE PLANET IN YET ANOTHER WAY"

@EEE-1409 5 ай бұрын

@@geekjokes8458 Pretty much, yeah. Global temperature increase ain't to be taken lightly. Shame to hear that we might not see those exotic southern ocean creatures for very long... :/

@matthewmatthew638 5 ай бұрын

It's great actually, King Crab is delicious and usually very expensive so more supply is awesome!

@_Smarf_ 5 ай бұрын

@@matthewmatthew638 Yeah, but is it really worth the extinction of so many unique forms of life just to get cheap crab?

@MadSwede87 5 ай бұрын

@@matthewmatthew638 Until the king crab eats everything and then dies because they have eaten everything, then we have nothing

@enoriczszaz 5 ай бұрын

I am in support of crabs conquering new territories. The time of crabs has come.

@davidjennings2179 5 ай бұрын

So, Antarctica, if I'm hearing you right you're saying things got hot between you and some other continents and now you've got crabs?

@Crow-gp3ci 5 ай бұрын

the first 5 seconds, the thumbnail and the tile put together without context would be terrifying

@sapphirewingthefurrycritic985 5 ай бұрын

Crabs are coming? I knew they'd find me eventually.

@nelsonianb1289 4 ай бұрын

Sounds like antarctica has its first export. Keeping the crab army at bay

@user-yp5ko8us9j 4 ай бұрын

So basically we just need more people who wanna eat king crab legs and we'll be fine.

@jaceti115111 5 ай бұрын

"I am Talenel'Elin, Herald of War. The time of the Return, the Desolation, is near at hand. We must prepare."

@rikofebri627 5 ай бұрын

Crabs is form of perfection. They will conquer the earth

@EpikMemer69 4 ай бұрын

Crab: Ok now we need to colonize this sea! Crab army: YESSIR

@imgonnabefree 5 ай бұрын

I wonder if it's possible to fish more of the king crabs that are approaching these unprotected areas so they don't werak as much havoc and become a source of income and nutrition for humans?

@jameslmathieson 5 ай бұрын

This was exactly my thought. Moreover, could we strategically focus our fishing efforts on the boundaries of warming ecosystems to control invasive species like this?

@Iflie 5 ай бұрын

Well it seems extra cold at the surface where the fishers would be and the crab would be very deep and hard to find. We've seem the hunt for king crab on tv and those pots are not that deep and even then the crew is chipping ice fr4om the boats.

@cpK054L 4 ай бұрын

Kong crabs are expensive and taste terrible compared to snow crabs. Lower the price, then we talk

@richardmccann4815 4 ай бұрын

@imgonnabefree the radioactivity from decades of dumping waste in the ocean, and the fire at chernobyl, and the meltdowns in Fukushima, have poisoned the greatest food source on earth!

@britishempire2501 5 ай бұрын

If you don't come to the crab the crab will come to you

@sadlegume 5 ай бұрын

I for one welcome our new crab overlords

@oscarreviewz5474 5 ай бұрын

I for one welcome our new crustacean overlords!!!🦀🦀🦀

@pranavid 5 ай бұрын

Thanks. I learned an incrabidle fact today.

@MrMomo182 5 ай бұрын

Everything eventually evolves into crabs.

@syiridium703 5 ай бұрын

"Buy our magnesium alloy wheel rims. They are 100% crab-proof!"

@HyperSarcasticAvocado 4 ай бұрын

"They double as crab traps. Just drive ur car into the ocean for 30 minutes and leave with a delicious crab feast!" *Crabs proceed to steal my car* Me: :O

@Cats9985 27 күн бұрын

Why can I imagine Crabs invading the arctic while listening to the song Crab Rave

@datastorm75 5 ай бұрын

16 million years is actually a very short amount of time. The oceans have been much warmer than this in the fairly recent past. One wonders how the super delicate and unable to survive antarctic waters managed to survive it in the past. You know, the VAST span of history the planet's environment existed before humans.

@4saken404 5 ай бұрын

Seeing as we now know that waters in Antarctica are the warmest they've been in 18 million years I really feel like they buried the lede with this one.

@Wizard_Pepsi 5 ай бұрын

This has the same energy as that discovery of flowers within central Antarctica

@DYW420 5 ай бұрын

I can feel the crabs coming into the earth slowly and slowly

@SumitRana-life314 5 ай бұрын

Shinovar vs. Rest of Roshar. Let's goooo!!!

@EllpaFox47 4 ай бұрын

WHY DOES EVERYTHING EVOLVE INTO CRABS!!!?

@greendude2616 5 ай бұрын

Well this is crabsolutely devastating😔

@sizanogreen9900 5 ай бұрын

yeah, it is *crab.*

@HierapolisPhrygia 5 ай бұрын

If you can’t beat ‘em, join them Evolves into crab*

@amog8202 5 ай бұрын

"Good for the crabs!!" "Oh..."

@MrBrick-vb3xh 5 ай бұрын

That takes the cake for the most ominous minute earth thumbnail and video name.

@bigshow3038 5 ай бұрын

Fun Fact: I would eat more crab if it wasn't so expensive to purchase

@HyperSarcasticAvocado 4 ай бұрын

If you're close enough, try to go catch some :)

@tenebrousjones4897 4 ай бұрын

Seems like a problem we could fix with a little unregulated crab-fishing.

@contradicsean 5 ай бұрын

Cheaper crab at the market in the coming years? Im down for that

@KuruGDI 5 ай бұрын

So you are saying that we should fish the depper waters around Antarctica clear for King Crabs (like capitalism bonkers industrial level fishing) and base our nutrition on them (since there are so many of them) to preserve the diverse marine wildlife around the island, right?

@jasonwalker9471 4 ай бұрын

That's what I heard! Deploy the deep sea trawlers!

@TheOtherNeutrino 5 ай бұрын

Time for Deadliest Catch: Southern Ocean edition to save the day.

@SevenIzCool 4 ай бұрын

Antarctic snow crab:am i a joke to you?

@RalorPenwat 5 ай бұрын

So what I'm hearing is we need to go even harder on crabbing

@urdnal 5 ай бұрын

"King crabs..." I'll catch you your crabs. The claws, the legs, the whole damn things. But I'll need 10,000 lbs of butter.

@Pottery4Life 5 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@sciencenerd7639 5 ай бұрын

wow, great video!

@KnowArt 5 ай бұрын

a cynic would say it's a crabby video, but I rave about it

@macsnafu 5 ай бұрын

So, the question is, should we do something to stop the crabs, or should we just let nature takes its own sweet time to deal with it?

@Custodian123 5 ай бұрын

I genuinely thought this would be a video about Rust... And how the Rustations are coming... I'm new to coding and getting really into it 😂

@angeldude101 5 ай бұрын

Can't say I was expecting a fellow Rustacean here.

@danielkum513 5 ай бұрын

You know what that means. To Antarctica for all king crab hunters

@Memezndreamz 4 ай бұрын

Lets hope coconut crabs don't start raiding human settlements.

@maartjevanderlinden4404 5 ай бұрын

Your puns are so good😂

@VVabsa 5 ай бұрын

Crabs, plankton and jellyfish are the new sea meta.

@W33Bster 5 ай бұрын

Im a simple man, i see crab in the title of a video, i click it

@KangJangkrik 5 ай бұрын

Just like Rustaceans of Rust Lang trying to rewrite entire kernel

@maxlopolo2415 5 ай бұрын

oh you mean 1,6 celsius more? Oh no, wait. that is on LAND. Wow they are such precise instruments.

@Eevee_Girl-056 5 ай бұрын

The thumbnail reminds me of the crabs in "Comet in Moominland" saying they want to take over their world or something lol 😂😂😂

@OuroborosChoked 5 ай бұрын

Sounds like an opportunity for the crab fishing industry.

@rubyhal11317 5 ай бұрын

"The Crabs are Coming" is such an ominous title

@24-dinitrophenylhydrazine29 5 ай бұрын

there will be rapid franchise growth for the Krusty krabs.

@trisymphony 5 ай бұрын

When life gives you crabs, make crab cakes.

@ivykwek1020 5 ай бұрын

Just bring all the asian they will make crab hot pot or chili crab

@FelipeKana1 4 ай бұрын

And then the might old one, crab-thulhu, will finally be awaken from its frozen slumber

@peacefulscrimp5183 5 ай бұрын

Over 100 years of photos of Plymouth Rock

@Ledinosour673 5 ай бұрын

I thought this was going to be funny now i feel bad for the starfish

@tbdwoods 5 ай бұрын

you forgot to give them a rating out of 5 for pet friendliness

@tylerslagel5485 5 ай бұрын

Crabs are the ultimate life form anyway.

@FT099 5 ай бұрын

Crab people, crab people!

@figo3554 5 ай бұрын

The crab rave isnt so happy anymore

@crabman3144 5 ай бұрын

As much as I would love for crabs to be in more habitats, it coming at a cost of antarctic biodiversity gives me great pause.

@holliegould3463 5 ай бұрын

we GOTTA start farming more crabs!! king crab should be cheap as hell!!!

@nonyabeeswax3153 5 ай бұрын

Soon there will be a Krusty Krab in Antartica

@pranavnarenelangovan435 5 ай бұрын

Can't wait for the crabs to attune multiple rhythms and, alter their shells and shape

@Corruptedhope 5 ай бұрын

As one particular crab said... "i like money"

@moonman2022 5 ай бұрын

Crabs are just big, tasty bugs that live in the water.

@user-yj8yu2ss4o 5 ай бұрын

Genghis Krab leads his horde to squishy lands

@cumulus1869 5 ай бұрын

The crabpocalypse

@ThatOneArab_Adam527 4 ай бұрын

Silence MinuteEarth -Crab

@GrEaTDemOnBlade 5 ай бұрын

The crab fleet is unstoppable.

@Dark-Lark 5 ай бұрын

My takeaway from this is that I should eat more crab.

@Fuladudi 5 ай бұрын

IG Antarctica will be having a lot of crab dishes

@Pulsar1001 5 ай бұрын

And still restaurants will charge a fortune for crab.....

@Geniusprimate 4 ай бұрын

I'll make an antartic crab for this south polar ocean.