The viral baby king crab has broken the internet with thousands of fans overnight. NOAA Fisheries shared a video on social media of a juvenile Neolithodes agassizii, commonly known as king crab.

It has happened so often with crab shapes it's been named carcinization. King crabs evolved from hermit crabs, and lost the need for a shell home up to 25 million years ago. Unlike true crabs that ...

That's how the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, described a baby crab that has taken ... Experts believe it is a king crab, but it is not a typically eaten species.