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Crab Museum Sparks Meme: Will Humans Evolve Claws?

10/18/2025

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Viral memes at the Crab Museum in Margate prompt visitors to ask if humans will sprout claws, according to Director Ned Suesat-Williams.
Professor Matthew Wills from the University of Bath explains that carcinisation involves decapods independently developing crab-like traits and that crabs are not a distinct biological group.
Wills reassures that humans will not evolve into crabs.

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Viral memes at the Crab Museum in Margate prompt visitors to ask if humans will sprout claws, according to Director Ned Suesat-Williams.
Professor Matthew Wills from the University of Bath explains that carcinisation involves decapods independently developing crab-like traits and that crabs are not a distinct biological group.
Wills reassures that humans will not evolve into crabs.