Well, it is a very good horseshoe crab in a t-shirt!
Horseshoe crabs are the best animal, anyone who disagrees is wrong and can fight me
Theyre so cool 🥹
I wonder if they’re tasty
How dare you 😭 /j
They already have to worry about being caught for their medically precious blue blood 🥹
I looked it up and apparently people can and do keep them as pets, but they need a very big tank and are generally wild caught so folks often discourage keeping them
they are crabs so yes
They’re not crabs! They’re not even crustaceans! They’re not even mandibulates, which means insects and myriapods are more closely related to crabs than they are! They aren’t even antennulata, which means they’re further from crustaceans than trilobites were!
What they are is cheliceriforms, like sea spiders and arachnids.
They can be consumed, but not all of them, and there is a risk of poisoning.
Perhaps we could make an argument for carcinization applying to naming as well? What if anything we can’t place could end up getting named something related to crabs?
“It’s 16:59 and some seconds and I need to run in less than a minute! We’ll call it a somethingsomething crab! Now I need a beer and I’ve got a train to catch, see y’all Monday!”
Crabshoe horse?
Don’t blame me, I call them limules. I’d say something about carcinisation, but tbh I don’t think they even look or move enough like crabs for it to apply. Someone just called it that and it stuck I guess.
HEY EVERYONE ITS SUPERPENGATOS FAULT
No wai. It’s Pangos. Pangos are the best! ❤️
Then whale shark. Then HSC! :D
Pangolins ARE delightful, I must give you that
Every million years or so:
“Hey, horseshoe crab, we’re gonna evolve. Wanna come with?”
“Naw, I’m good.”
that horseshoe crab is coming home with me TONIGHT
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