Blue Horseshoe Crab #3
by Patricia Januszkiewicz
Title
Blue Horseshoe Crab #3
Artist
Patricia Januszkiewicz
Medium
Photograph - Painterly Style
Description
The Atlantic horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, is a marine chelicerate arthropod. Despite its name, it is more closely related to spiders, ticks, and scorpions than to crabs. Horseshoe crabs are most commonly found in the Gulf of Mexico and along the northern Atlantic coast of North America. A main area of annual migration is Delaware Bay, although stray individuals are occasionally found in Europe.
Horseshoe crabs have evolved little in the last 250 million years. Still,
they have survived because of their hard, curved shells, which have
made it difficult for predators to overturn them and expose their soft,
vulnerable underbellies. The horseshoe crab has also survived
because it can go a year without eating and endure extreme
temperatures and salinity.
Horseshoe crabs are considered living fossils.
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October 6th, 2012
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