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‘Living fossils’: we mapped half a billion years of horseshoe crabs to save them from blood harvests – Micky News

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. Fossil records for horseshoe crabs extend back about 480 mil…

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Fossil records for horseshoe crabs extend back about 480 million years. This is well over 200 million years before the dinosaurs.
More recently, horseshoe crabs have greatly helped advance modern me…

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