The ‘Monstrous Birth’ of Lobsters

The fact that lobsters ‘walked’ on their claws puzzled even Aristotle. He had to employ all his deductive genius to explain why. 

The Homarus and the European spiny lobster. Engraving from Brehm’s Life of Animals, by Alfred Edmund Brehm, late 19th century © Bridgeman Images.

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