amazing horseshoe crabs
Post on 13-Jan-2015
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Welcome Horseshoe Crabs
Everything you ever wanted to know
How the horseshoe crab sees
From Discovery Education
Why did the ancestors of Horseshoe crabs start laying their eggs on the beach 500 million years ago?
Blue Blood for medical use
Limulus Amoebocyte Lysate (LAL)
Horseshoe crabs are used for bait!
Red Knots
http://featherflower.blogspot.com/2008/05/redetermined-migration-part-ii.html
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Red_knot_Delaware.jpg/640px-Red_knot_Delaware.jpg
Our horseshoe crabs will be released in May!
Thank you to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources for providing the slides with the blue background.
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