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‘Living fossils’: we mapped half a billion years of horseshoe crabs to save them from blood harvests – The Conversation AU
A chemical refined from the blue, copper-based blood of horseshoe crabs helps identify contaminants in medical equipment inserted into humans.
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.
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