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Time comes for us all.
We found this dead horseshoe crab on the beach today. It had a numbered tag on its shell apparently put there by The Maryland Fish & Wildlife Conservation Office. I’ve seen many horseshoe crabs here over the years, but never one with a tag. I made sure to go to the website and log it.
440 million years old, and someone goes and staples a tag to me?
God damn it so much
It looks like a CD to. Bro went and stapled his mixtape to a crab
I didn’t know that they lived that long.
That’s how long the species has existed. They live ~25 years.
Only the lucky ones
Especially now that they’re harvesting them for blood.
It’s an important ingredient for the safety of injectable drugs and the crabs are returned to the sea alive. If a synthetic alternative takes off, I am concerned that the government will not care as much about protecting this species.
They probably did that to try to learn more about their longevity and habits
Lol I love how innocent your comment is. In a thread of jokes and sarcasm you come in with the pure intention of informing. Cheers friend🍻