>>13176324>crocodiles and crabs will both find or form new niches further and further inland away from water, becoming all manner of bugs and lizardsexcept they already did you dumb cunt, hundreds of millions of years ago. crocodiles are the surviving precursors of dinosaurs, which became birds, and crabs are precursors of arachnids, insects, and their ilk. scorpions are basically highly developed land-lobsters. crocs and crabs still exist because they near-perfectly fill their niches, crabs having evolved like 7 separate times, and they aren't going anywhere any time soon.