Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Crab

Crab

No bigger than a thumb, a sand crab spends most of its time buried in shifting sand. Well camouflaged by its gray shell, a sand crab keeps its balance in the ever-moving sand with the help of a heavily armored, curved body and pointy legs. To stay put in the sand, a crab burrows quickly and often. While most crabs move in any direction—forward, backward and sideways—a sand crab moves only backward. And a sand crab has no claws on its first pair of legs—another unusual feature for a crab.

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