That's the ONLY marine/sealife related factoid I learned over the past weekend. :-) How did that come about? Glad you asked. :-)) There was a fantastic seafood buffet restaurant in Nashville, which included all the Alaskan King Crab one can (wants to) eat. I had several of these "feasts" while I was on sabbatical leave in Nashville in 1982. Over the next 20 years, until last Friday, I had searched seafood restaurants in Boston to Los Angeles to Alaska to Toronto and all the cities I had set foot, without finding another buffet like it! I also re-visited the same restaurant in Nashville some years ago and learned that they no longer served King Crabs. When we were in Nashville Friday, it was THEN that I learned from the restaurant owner (or manager) that they had stopped serving Alaskan King Crabs in their buffet menu for some years after 1982 because the those King Crabs were on the Endangered Species List! Well, these fellas must have made a big comeback, because while I was a bit disappointed at the "unlimited King Crabs legs" (served once a week) in a restaurant in Las Vegas (this year) because of the size of those legs (medium to small), I was once again, treated to the truly GENUINE Alaskan King Crab legs (and all I could eat too :-)) at the New Orleans Manor in Nashville. Survival of the Fittest. Glad the Alaskan King Crab made it, and I can devour them in earnest, once again. I am absolutely amazed at the number of Alaskan SNOW crabs (the King Crab's small cousins) that are being consumed in buffet restaurants and their prices remain low -- which means they are still plentiful. I HOPE they don't survive soooo well that we (human beans) may have to try to destroy them (without success) like we have been trying to do on flies, cockroaches, and rats. :-) Meanwhile, viva la Alaskan King Crabs. Yummmmm. <BG> -- Bob.