Photographer Shares Viral Photo of a Crab Sporting Human Teeth

A deep-sea fisherman confounded the internet with a popular Instagram post of his latest catch: a crab that had human teeth

Roman Fedortsov, a photographer who works on a fishing trawler in Western Russia, posts images of some of the most unusual deep-sea catches on his Instagram page. Last week, Fedorstov's 652,000 followers found themselves cringing over a photo shared by the photographer-fisherman.

Nearly 10,000 people liked a picture of a crab with what appears to be a set of human teeth that was posted on Fedortsov's page. Fedortsov captioned the image in Russian, which Instagram translated, and stated that there is still something both beautiful and repulsive about crabs, as well as that mother nature did her best concerning the crab in the picture.

Some users who left comments on the post expressed their terror at the crustacean, with one user claiming that the crab's teeth are those of a human. The same user issued an open invitation for anyone to correct him.

Another user made fun of the crab by joking that it was an alien from the movie "Predator."

Others were quick to make jokes about how human-like the crab appeared, with one remarking that the crab had better teeth than the British.

Another user responded, claiming that it was a person in the picture was actually his mother-in-law from New Jersey and not a crab.

One commenter used the phrase "Part of the ship, part of the crew" in reference to the crew of Davy Jones' ship in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie, which features some crab-like, cursed pirates.

Other Social Media Crabs

The internet has recently been horrified by several other viral crabs. In March, the account @wesdaisy uploaded a video to TikTok in which a tiny crab was removed from a woman's ear, causing users to scream in pain.

The video depicts someone using tweezers to try to remove the crab from the woman's ear while she was snorkeling in San Juan, as stated in the text that is displayed over the video. The crab appears soon enough, scurries out of the woman's ear, and then jumps to the ground, Newsweek reports.

Something Crab-Like

More recently, a group of researchers in Antarctica were shocked to find a swarm of crab-like creatures living in a river that was 1,600 feet under the ice.

While it is known that freshwater lakes and rivers exist beneath the Antarctic ice, the discovery of the crab-like swarm in June marked the first time one of these rivers and the life thriving within it had been observed. The team of scientists from New Zealand could not believe the river was teeming with life in the way it was.

Scientists are so troubled by the fact that things keep turning into crabs that the federal government has given them grants to investigate it.

One common ancestor for these groups existed more than 300 million years ago. The fact that the crabs keep showing up indicates that evolution has had plenty of time to take place.