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Angry mutant green crabs are destroying everything in their path
FoxNews.com/Science ^ | Sept 20, 2018 | Chris Ciaccia | Fox News

Posted on 09/20/2018 9:55:40 AM PDT by ETL

Angry green crabs from Nova Scotia, angrier than their already ornery green cousins in Maine, are migrating south. They have started to destroy the coastal ecosystem off the shores of Maine, as they eat more than their share of soft-shell clams and wreck native eel grass, according to research from Markus Frederich, a professor at the University of New England.

"What we're seeing is this insane level of aggressiveness," Frederich told the Associated Press.

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Louis Logan, a University of New England graduate student, had the unpleasant task of labeling the crabs captured from Nova Scotia waters for the research.

The crabs were in no mood for games.

At a distance of 5 feet, the pint-sized brutes assumed a fighting posture. Those that grabbed him were in no hurry to let go.

"Any time I went down to grab one they went to grab me instead," he wrote in an email.

One of them, in particular, would jump out of the water in its frenzy to attack.

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The quarrelsome newcomers currently comprise only about 2 to 3 percent of green crabs crawling on the ocean floor off Maine, but those numbers are certain to grow, Frederich said.

"It will be an entirely different ball game," he predicted. "It's just a question of when more of the crabs come and out-compete the Maine green crabs."

Eventually, the newcomers will move farther southward. "We can't do anything about it," he said. "The only thing that we can do is learn how to live with it."

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: bringmoreplates; eelgrass; globalwarminghoax; greencrabs; maine; meltedbutter; novascotia
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To: ETL

Oh, the crabs are in a pissy mood, and they’re INVADING our country? Well, we’ve got better than that, by a big margin. Let’s send in all of the angry Leftist women, along with the Antifa jackholes. Of course, we’ll be invading the crabs’ territory, so we’ll have to airdrop the lot into the ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia.


61 posted on 09/20/2018 12:05:50 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: ETL

Bkmk


62 posted on 09/20/2018 12:07:59 PM PDT by nclaurel
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To: Red Badger

That movie immediately popped into my mind. Wonder if Roger Corman is on the scene.


63 posted on 09/20/2018 12:16:07 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: ETL

Kill them, kill them all ....


64 posted on 09/20/2018 12:18:10 PM PDT by Scythian_Reborn
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65 posted on 09/20/2018 12:22:24 PM PDT by Scythian_Reborn
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To: Darksheare

:)

I was hoping you were still around.

(sung: *STILLLL ARRROOOUUUNNNND*)


66 posted on 09/20/2018 12:25:22 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

He’s still alive!!!!..................92 years old!..............

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Corman


67 posted on 09/20/2018 12:27:30 PM PDT by Red Badger (Q..........................Future Proves Past..............WWG1WGA.....................)
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To: freedumb2003

I am.
Work has been running me ragged lately though.


68 posted on 09/20/2018 12:34:05 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: ETL

69 posted on 09/20/2018 12:36:08 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Darksheare

Dang.

Well better to be hard at work than to be leisurely unemployed.

After I went independent I learned about the worry about down time (but so far 2 years of continued engagements).

Better than doing quarterly performance reviews or being expected to write white papers no one will ever read, though. :)

Hang in here!


70 posted on 09/20/2018 12:37:27 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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To: USMCPOP
Angry Green Crabs. I think I saw them at a rock concert back around 1971.

Blue Oyster Cult.

71 posted on 09/20/2018 12:42:05 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (If your church believes in evolution it is not a Christian church.)
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To: ETL

So massive invasion of aliens is a disaster here but a “blessing” there? Something doesn’t compute, what am I missing ?


72 posted on 09/20/2018 12:47:22 PM PDT by miniTAX
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To: BenLurkin

Yes.


73 posted on 09/20/2018 12:48:53 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: DungeonMaster

“Blue Oyster Cult. “

No, they had legs.


74 posted on 09/20/2018 1:17:53 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: ETL
Any time I went down to grab one they went to grab me instead," he wrote in an email.

Jersey/Delaware/Maryland Blueclaw crabs do exactly the same. This looks like it's gonna be more AGW propaganda (I only read the first few lines).

75 posted on 09/20/2018 1:25:57 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Bratch
Tonight's feature on Monster Chiller Horror Theater is The Angry Mutant Green Crabs Who Destroyed Everything In Their Path starring Doug McClure, Audrey Landers, Jerry Mathers and Charo.


76 posted on 09/20/2018 1:47:15 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Space Radiation Threat to Astronauts Explained (Infographic)

By Karl Tate, SPACE.com Infographics Artist
May 30, 2013

https://www.space.com/21353-space-radiation-mars-mission-threat.html


77 posted on 09/20/2018 2:04:14 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Sorry! Posted to wrong thread.

Meant for this new one I just posted...

Astronauts Going to Mars Will Absorb Crazy Amounts of Radiation. Now We Know How Much
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3689206/posts


78 posted on 09/20/2018 2:07:03 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

But now we know where the angry mutant crabs came from!


79 posted on 09/20/2018 2:26:49 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: -YYZ-
Not NS... Point Lepreau - which is right across the Bay of Fundy from NS.

Close enough for government work..

80 posted on 09/20/2018 2:45:22 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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