Oh dear god. I’ve never bothered to read much into the anatomy of horseshoe crabs until today, and I had no idea they have an array of photoreceptors along their telson (the long, tail-like segment). That’s so creepy.
there’s something about non-fishy, non-mammalian sea creatures that makes them have photoreceptors fucking everywhere. look at starfish or some octopuses for example. or any other genus really
Why bother? I’ll just end up re-carcinizing later.
Yep, evolution always ends in crabs.
If you are already there, why bother?
Existed for millions of years before horses. Named after hunks of metal nailed to horse hooves.
Millions of years from now, they tell each other tales of the brief flicker of time when primates with delusions of grandeur captured them and drained them of their blood. But the primates aren’t around anymore. Nothing is, besides the horseshoe crab, watching the remains of the oceans dry up, as the sun grows larger and larger in the sky.
as life returns to crab, so does crab return to AAA GET IT OFF GET IT OFF
Horseshoe crabs got it alllll figured out.
Horseshoe crabs have been described as “living fossils”, having changed little since they first appeared in the Triassic around 250 million years ago, and similar-looking fossil xiphosurans extend back to the Ordovician around 445 million years ago.
If you extend the truth a bit. :)
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” in animal form
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Crocs did it better
