2008Feb15: “Today, global warming is removing barriers to invasions and we’ve seen recently that crabs, especially king crabs, are on the doorstep of Antarctica – they can potentially re-invade the shallow waters if warming continues,” said Dr Sven Thatje of the National Oceanography Centre at the University of Southampton, UK. King crabs might threaten sea life like giant sea spiders and floppy ribbon worms (BBC).
Reference: BBC. 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7248025.stm
Image Description: A spiny king crab (Paralithodes californiensis). Photo by Moondigger, 2006Feb05. Image Location: Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Spiny_king_crab_md.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License.
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