horseshoe crab

i do believe i could talk about them for hours. survived 5 mass extinctions? unevolved in 450 million years?? magic blood? gathering under the full perigee moon?? @Lida Richardson we might need to be best friends.

here’s a really short video on their spawning ritual:

and i love this pbs nature episode about the relationship between horseshoe crabs and red knots (tiny shorebirds that migrate from the southernmost point of south america to the arctic every year)