Photography courtesy of © Frans Lanting, Glenn Gauvry,
and the National Aquarium in Baltimore -

The Amazing Horseshoe

An ancient species, astonishingly adaptable, and important to our current ecology-- the horseshoe crab continues to fascinate those who watch their yearly migration to the beaches. But the animal is even more intriguing when one takes a closer look:

the horseshoe crab has TEN eyes and can see UV light?

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in Anatomy

they predate flying insects, the dinosaurs and man?

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in Crab Species

their blood protects them (and us) from infection?

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in Medical Uses

the horseshoes you see on beaches are
ALL adults?

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in Lifecycle

they're essential to migratory birds on the East Coast?

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Delaware Bay is the world's largest spawning ground for horseshoes?

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in Spawning