They are related to trilobites, have 10 eyes, blue blood, and several pairs of legs with knocks. The Atlantic horseshoe crabs.
This animal, also known as the living fossil, can be seen on the beach only once a year, when the females start breeding their eggs in the sand during the breeding season. We had that luck during our stay in Yucatan, Mexico. They are very shy and harmless animals though, you dont have to be afraid of them.
In addition to ten eyes, five pairs of limbs with knives and a long spindle, the spine is unique to its blood.
Blood of the horseshoe crab is blue because it contains no iron, but copper. The blood of this tip is used in medicine - cupric oxide, which it contains, acts as a reagent for testing drug purity.
Today, however, it belongs among the endangered animals, with only 3 genera surviving.
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LIL, this was in Mexico? Great picture.
It is Telchac Puerto, there are plenty of them!!!
Oh! Wow! I have never seen it before. It looks wonderful. How about the other side of this crab. I would love to see it. Thank you friend.
Just look at that cute face :))
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