Knife-wielding crabs? Here’s the troubling truth behind these viral videos.

Perhaps it's the crab's surly-looking demeanor or the way it wildly waves the knife as it shuffles away that made this footage go viral. A similar video caught fire online last month. Are we in the midst of a crustacean uprising? Nah. Jack Cover, general curator for the National Aquarium in Baltimore, explains, "It's a hoax." The crab is "absolutely distressed," he added.
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