CRAB 4,000 YEARS OLD.
EMBEDDED IN ROCK SAND, BUT STILL ALIVE. A remarkable discovery reported Nottingham raises the question, has often been hotly debated : by naturalists, whether animal life can be sustained without access to air and food Ten feet below the surface, embedded in rock sand, a live crab is stated to have been discovered under thfe following circumstances: — A workman employed by Mr W. Everard, a builder, was excavating in Haydn Street, when, on breaking off a huge Jump of mck with a crowbar, he saw something move. A closer examination shoved that the moving thing was a live crab. Its shell measured three inches by two inches. In thickness the crab measurea one and a-quarter inches I'. has eight legs and two feelers, and is exactly like an ordinary sea-rrab, except that its shell has sharp, ragged edges. The suggestion is made that the crab must be three or four thousand years old.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8868, 31 October 1907, Page 7
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156CRAB 4,000 YEARS OLD. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8868, 31 October 1907, Page 7
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