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Visited Yarmouth earlier today and found some horseshoe crab molts on Cousin's Island. These are both from female crabs.

Next time I seek out a male crabbie. They have cool grasper legs underneath that big carapace.

Horseshoe crabs are pretty neat. They're living fossils, have been around and basically unchanged for 300+ million years. Though similar looking to crustaceans, they are not in that family and are actually more closely related to spiders and scorpions. Also their blood lacks hemoglobin and contains hemocyanin instead, so it is blue.

Description
Visited Yarmouth earlier today and found some horseshoe crab molts on Cousin's Island. These are both from female crabs.

Next time I seek out a male crabbie. They have cool grasper legs underneath that big carapace.

Horseshoe crabs are pretty neat. They're living fossils, have been around and basically unchanged for 300+ million years. Though similar looking to crustaceans, they are not in that family and are actually more closely related to spiders and scorpions. Also their blood lacks hemoglobin and contains hemocyanin instead, so it is blue.