Tag: horseshoe crabs
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Without enough horseshoe crabs, a threatened bird could go extinct
By Jay Watson With their helmet-shaped shells and spiky tails, horseshoe crabs are “living fossils” that look much the same today as they did 450 million years ago. For countless millennia, horseshoe crabs living in the Delaware Bay have played a vital role in the life cycles of migrating shorebirds, which visit bayshore beaches each…
