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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

coconut crab

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HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Victoria Watson-Zink studies how crabs adapted to life on land, including coconut crabs like this one in Zanzibar. Her work on the species helped inform its inclusion on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species. 

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Victoria Watson-Zink

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