Horseshoe Crab

“Ancient, durable, kinda scary. Life is a miracle. edit: official mascots of rec league, pending approval”

“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)”

“I just saw mini baby horseshoe crab exoskeletons for the first time and I had only seen the adult ones washed up on the beach before! These were so little and cute!”