Horseshoe Crab
This article was written by Dr. Masakazu Tsuchiya, FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Corporation, for Vol. 61, No. 4 (July 1993) of Wako Junyaku Jiho.
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Called "living fossils," the horseshoe crab has inhabited the earth's oceans for about 200 million years with little change in morphology. As with spiders and scorpions, it is said that these crabs ar...