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[–] lauha@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago

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. :)

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

as life returns to crab, so does crab return to AAA GET IT OFF GET IT OFF

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 hours ago

Remember when red blood was all the rage?

Oh man, that fad takes me back

[–] MTB@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Existed for millions of years before horses. Named after hunks of metal nailed to horse hooves.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 13 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

What did they call them before horseshoes?

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Wendy. Wendy Crabs.

[–] MTB@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago

I don’t know, I’ve never asked them.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago

I met one called Dave once. Lovely guy

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 45 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] schildfrosch@feddit.org 24 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Eyes on thier tail? Nature be cray

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 hour ago

Only two photoreceptors on their head, facing the same direction so they can only see the same thing? What's that point of that?

  • Horseshoe Crab Social Media.
[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 32 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Why bother? I'll just end up re-carcinizing later.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yep, evolution always ends in crabs.

If you are already there, why bother?

[–] deus@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" in animal form

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 10 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I looked it up once if they really haven't changed at all since the earliest fossils, and they actually have - just not by very much.

[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 13 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I looked up to see how these suckers taste, and they're actually pretty gross looking inside, idk I'm adventurous but I think I may have found my limit

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 23 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

They're used a lot for industry medicine. Thier blood is harvested and then theyre released.

So you might have already had a taste!

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 18 points 19 hours ago

These are the ones with the blue blood? I remember seeing a video on it. They hook them up suck some blood out and put them back.

[–] Bruhh@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Don't they die from this anyway?

[–] dkppunk@piefed.social 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I’m an adventurous eater and I would definitely eat that, but there are only a handful of things I won’t try.

[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I always told myself "crickets are my limit" any more legs than that and I'm out

[–] dkppunk@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

My limit is that is not alive when served and balut. I will try pretty much anything else for the most part.

[–] BigBrownDog@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Horseshoe crabs got it alllll figured out.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

and didn't even need a cortex to do so

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago (2 children)
[–] BigBrownDog@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Michaelangelo was but a baboon with a brush in his gooch compared to the likes of your artistry.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 3 points 11 hours ago

props for the detail of pointing the crab's head back to talk to the other crab

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Crocs did it better

[–] Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 17 hours ago

They always creep me out