Horse Shoe Crabs! [ Specimen Saturday ]

Описание: Specimen Saturday time! Today we look over some of Seri's favorite specimens in her home - her horse shoe crab shells! Horse shoe crabs are an aquatic ocean-faring creature closely related to scorpions and spiders who have been swimming around in the Earth's waters for over 450 million years!

Their blood is very unique and binds in the presence of bacterial agents - long story short, the blood of this little creature is used to test almost every injectable medication in the United States! Horse shoe crabs are regularly rounded up to have some of their blood taken from them - not all of it! - and then released. The blood is then used to test medications that save lives.

Learn more about these awesome little guys here:
http://horseshoecrab.org/
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• Seri is a biologist-in-training with an intense passion for plants and filling her house to the brim with finches, potted plants, and biology "specimens" that look oddly like snail shells, mossy, and twigs covering every available surface.

She is also big into spreading her love of the natural world through the entertaining medium of story-telling through video games! Jump on in and see what our amazing, animal-loving, plant-studying community is all about! And remember, stay curious! •
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