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Crab

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Crab

Crabs were a type of crustacean found on several planets, including Earth. These crabs sometimes grew or evolved into giant crabs, such as those that lived on the island Salutua. (PROSE: The Eye of the Giant [+]Loading...["The Eye of the Giant (novel)"])

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

Of Earth-origin[[edit] | [edit source]]

On Earth, crabs were a food source. Fishermen such as Charlie Johns fished for them along the coastline such as the Cornish coast. (PROSE: Rip Tide [+]Loading...["Rip Tide (novel)"])

During a visit to Keelmouth in the 20th century, a small orange crab nipped at the First Doctor's big toe. (PROSE: Bide-a-Wee [+]Loading...["Bide-a-Wee (short story)"])

Crabs were listed in the Avalonian Bestiary of all animal life on the Earth colony Avalon. (PROSE: The Sorcerer's Apprentice [+]Loading...["The Sorcerer's Apprentice (novel)"])

In the 40th century, crabs were among the sea creatures mutated to giant size by an unexploded H-bomb lost off the coast of Spain two thousand years earlier. Pete Nesbit and Hal of the Marine Rescue Brigade discovered a crab that was at least twenty feet in diameter. (COMIC: The Sea Monsters [+]Loading...["The Sea Monsters (comic story)"])

Elsewhere[[edit] | [edit source]]

On one planet, crabs were, as the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown discovered, genetically-engineered to become more intelligent. (PROSE: Shell Shock [+]Loading...["Shell Shock (novel)"])

Giant hermit crabs existed on a planet the Fourth Doctor and Romana II once visited. (PROSE: The Little Things [+]Loading...["The Little Things (short story)"])

On at least two different planets the Doctor encountered violent crabs. The First Doctor, John and Gillian encountered a large crab in a sea on a desolate planet. It attacked John, but the Doctor was able to drive it off with his electroliser. (COMIC: Shark Bait [+]Loading...["Shark Bait (TVC comic story)"]) On the planet Praxos 9 the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler encountered and had to fight off luminous sucker crabs. (COMIC: Blood and Tears [+]Loading...["Blood and Tears (comic story)"])

In the Divergent Universe, the Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard and C'rizz encountered giant crabs on an island. (AUDIO: The Next Life [+]Loading...["The Next Life (audio story)"])

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