Not actually a horseshoe and not actually a crab either . . . This week we go back in time to an era before the dinosaurs and we discuss this ancient living fossil.
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Sources:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/07/covid-vaccine-needs-horseshoe-crab-blood/
https://oceana.org/marine-life/cephalopods-crustaceans-other-shellfish/american-horseshoe-crab
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Limulus_polyphemus/
https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/smsfp/irlspec/Limulu_polyph.htm
https://myfwc.com/research/saltwater/crustaceans/horseshoe-crabs/facts/#:~:text=The%20anatomy%20of%20the%20species,live%20up%20to%2020%20years!
https://www.horseshoecrab.org/info/lifecycle.html#:~:text=The%20horseshoe%20crab%20must%20molt,first%20two%20to%20three%20years.&text=Horseshoe%20crabs%20will%20molt%2016,mature%20(Shuster%2C%201950).
https://gulfspecimen.org/horseshoe-crab-molts/
http://www.vetstreet.com/our-pet-experts/why-you-should-care-about-horseshoe-crabs
https://marinebio.org/species/horseshoe-crabs/limulus-polyphemus/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/a/atlantic-horseshoe-crab/
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/horseshoe-crab.html
http://www.edc.uri.edu/restoration/html/gallery/invert/shoe.htm
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2018.00185/full
https://myfwc.com/research/saltwater/crustaceans/horseshoe-crabs/facts/
https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Invertebrates/Horseshoe-Crab
https://www.chesapeakebay.net/S=0/fieldguide/critter/horseshoe_crab
https://www.fws.gov/northeast/pdf/horseshoe.fs.pdf
Reporting nesting sites in Florida website:
https://myfwc.com/research/saltwater/crustaceans/horseshoe-crabs/report-sightings/
