Watching someone eat crab legs, it struck me that if I saw a movie where a different species ate something like that, I’d be disgusted by their eating chunks of giant bugs.
So, are lobsters pretty much giant sea cockroaches in terms of anatomy, behavior and niche? Is it the same “template” affected by whether it’s in air/land or sea?
Can lobsters fly?
During one of his TV shows, Alton Brown showed a “family tree” indicating that lobsters are not far removed from cockroachs.
Looks like cockroaches and lobsters are in the same phylum, Arthropoda, but are in different sub-phylums … for comparison, both fish and humans are in the same phylum, Chordata, but different sub-phylums …
Humans are closer to newts (four limbs) than cockroaches are to lobster (exoskeleton) … which is to say not close at all … IMEIO …
But bear in mind research continues …
In my mind, the classifications are different - cockroaches and lobsters and snakes all belong to Ickicreepidae, and puppies and bunnies belong to Cuteidae. I think this type of personal classification system is the only reason anybody thinks cockroaches and lobsters have similarities.
That’s a big leap.
As God is my witness… 
Lions and tigers are in Runawaydea?
No, they are not.
You mention crabs. It may surprise you that lobsters are more closely related to cockroaches and other insects than they are to some marines animals that are called crabs. Insects and crustaceans (including most marine species called “crab”) are members of the same clade: Pancrustacea. Horseshoe crabs, on the other hand, are in a different clade (Chelicerata) along with the arachnids (spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, etc.)
Jim Gaffigan thinks they’re a giant sea scorpion.
The branching point between hexapods and decapods (wherther they can beat a demigod or not) is in excess of 500 million years ago. The first tetrapods were around 400 million years ago. Therefore, cockroaches and lobsters are less closely related than humans and pteranodons.
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Generally, several fathoms.
Exactly.
I think that in food slang from China, where, unlike in American Chinese cooking, crabs are far more popular than lobster, the latter are referred to as “sea cockroaches.”
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Oh, this is a fun way to highlight how arbitrary our classifications are. Let me put Scarlett Johansson in Ummwannaseehernakedidea, and myself in EwnotevenifIwasdrunkidea, two phyla that most scientists believe are more distantly separated than mammals and viruses.
Never forgetting, of course, that a coyote is classified as “nemesis ridiculii”.
#ultrasonicusbeepusbeepus
Depends on the restaurant.
…, meat’s meat and a man’s gotta eat!
You mean genetically or in flavour?