[HN Gopher] The 'giant' river crabs that live beneath Rome's anc...
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       The 'giant' river crabs that live beneath Rome's ancient ruins
        
       Author : mooreds
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2024-11-24 14:30 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | pushedx wrote:
       | Reminds me of this absolute classic.
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       | https://youtube.com/watch?v=AqFFuhBjqjg
        
       | alsetmusic wrote:
       | https://archive.is/ZSc4Q
        
       | littlestripes wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/ZSc4Q
        
       | horeszko wrote:
       | I wonder if the mud crabs around the Imperial City in Elder
       | Scrolls Oblivion where based on this?
        
         | keybored wrote:
         | Haha I was thinking of that too. Maybe but they for sure were
         | also inspired by their Seyda Neen brethren.
        
         | walrus01 wrote:
         | Only if you put top hats and monocles on them
         | 
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma6YwXHpnOg
        
           | darknavi wrote:
           | Was really hoping that would be Dunky's Skyrim video:
           | 
           | https://youtu.be/q6yHoSvrTss?si=EymUzTtDIRa1ZQLM
        
       | teruakohatu wrote:
       | > Between 2004 and 2006, researchers at the local Roma Tre
       | University caught and identified nearly 500 individual crabs...
       | 
       | > And, as the surface becomes hotter and less humid due to
       | climate change, the crabs have tunneled further down to remain
       | cool and undisturbed. "Now they've gone even deeper. They're
       | impossible to find," says Damiani...
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       | > We'd love to study these animals because they deserve to not
       | only be studied but also saved
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       | They recruited volunteers to trap 100s of crabs and put cameras
       | in the areas they frequent. I can't help but think maybe the
       | crabs should have been left alone and maybe after ~1,600 years of
       | being left alone they have not responded well to humans bothering
       | them.
        
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