![]() ![]() Horseshoe Crabs, whose earliest ancestors arose nearly 450 million years ago, live lives spanning 20 to 40 years. The latter will be the focus of today’s exploration. The fourth species is found along the US Atlantic Coast, parts of the Gulf of Mexico, and the Yucatan Penninsula: the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab ( Limulus polyphemus). ![]() 3 of them are native to the Indo-Pacific and Asian regions of the world: the Mangrove Horseshoe Crab ( Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda), the Indo-Pacific Horseshoe Crab ( Tachypleus gigas), the Chinese Horseshoe Crab ( Tachypleus tridentatus). There are currently 4 living species of Horseshoe Crab in the world. I’m talking about, of course, the horseshoe crab. They somehow manage to simultaneously embody the moniker of horseshoe while also looking nothing alike other than a U-ish similarity, just as much as their sight immediately calls to mind a crab while not being one in the slightest. I have to admit, my wife got me a classic Gameboy Color for Christmas, exactly like the one I had when I was a kid, and I’ve put close to 20 hours into Pokemon Gold over the past 4 weeks.Īnyway, the point is that they look like, like many things from the sea, otherworldly, ancient, relics of a bygone era, even straight made up for an animated children’s television and game series that somehow manages to rely on its characters training animals to fight each other as a universe building plot point which is, I mean, problematic, right? I don’t know. Maybe you’re familiar with the Pokemon called Kabuto. They look like some sort of illustration in a mid-90’s kids book about prehistoric animals, which, if you’re familiar, is a really specific aesthetic that deserves some sort of a revival. ![]()
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