Crabs usually have a thick exoskeleton and a single pair of claws. They are found in fresh and salt water and may be as tiny as a pea or up to 13 feet. They like to walk sideways and have a mixed diet of plants and animals.
Other fun crab facts. Crabs communicate with each other by waving their pincers or drumming them. Crabs have 10 legs but the first two are pincers. A group of crabs is called a cast. Follow the image below to create the crab.
How to model a chiton…
Chitons live all over the world both in cold water and tropical waters. They live on or under rocks. Chitons have a shell which is made of eight separate shell plates.
They can creep along slowly on their muscular foot and stick to rocks really well. The chiton likes to graze algae-like plants off of rocks.
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