horseshoe crabs
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We Mapped Half a Billion Years of Horseshoe Crabs to Save Them From Blood Harvests
If you ventured to the New York seaside in summer, you might see a large dome-shaped animal with a spiky tail, slowly moving towards the water. These are horseshoe crabs – the animals time forgot. Fossil records for horseshoe crabs extend back about 480 million years. This is well over 200 million years before the…