Monster crabs are invading again! Huge crabs have invaded the Antarctic, wiping out local wildlife and ruining ecosystems that have evolved over 14 million years. Three years ago, researchers predicted that as the deep waters of the Southern Ocean warmed, king crabs would invade Antarctica within 100 years, and now they’ve arrived. They have a voracious appetite and eat everything in their path.
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It’s like a scene out of a sci-fi movie–thousands, possibly millions, of king crabs are marching through icy, deep-sea waters and up the Antarctic slope. We’ve had invasions of ants, stinkbugs and (most recently) bedbugs, but these critters are swarming the beaches of Antarctica, a place where they haven’t been seen for hundreds, thousands–or even millions–of years.
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