Time to add an other animal death pip for the Google Maps animal death tracker.  For the third year in a row, thousands of velvet swimming crabs (Necora puber) have been found dead on a beach in Thanet Coast, England.  It’s almost a tradition for crabs to die by the thousands in Thanet.  This year’s crab death started shortly after Christmas, but has only kicked into high gear this weekend, with the beaches being littered with crab corpses.

“It’s been a phenomenon for probably a third year in a row,” said Tony Child, project manager for Thanet Coast.  “I don’t really know the cause but it seems to be cold-related.”

The deaths of the crabs occur in the days after the first big snow melt of the season.  Child believes that the cold water from melting snow causes hypothermia in the cold-sensitive crabs.  As for the crabs?  They’ll be left on the beaches for a seagull feast.  It’s the right thing to do; those crabs were just too delicious to live.

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