Amazing horseshoe crabs

Welcome Horseshoe Crabs

Everything you ever wanted to know

Horseshoe crab swimming

http://youtu.be/sCtAv7fU1lc?hd=1

How the horseshoe crab sees

From Discovery Education

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SBOKcuVHDo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SBOKcuVHDo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7fwwelWpdc

Why did the ancestors of Horseshoe crabs start laying their eggs on the beach 500 million years ago?

http://youtu.be/x-KEYpohcRY?t=1m57s

http://youtu.be/Daz8nkh-pWM

Blue Blood for medical use

Limulus Amoebocyte Lysate (LAL)

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&sa=X&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS451US451&biw=1280&bih=909&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=Nnq0RKriVZh8RM:&imgrefurl=http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/06/st_processcrab/&docid=9MUk_7JBsdPSqM&imgurl=http://www.wired.com/magazine/wp-content/images/st_processcrab/st_processcrab_f.jpg&w=660&h=731&ei=K1FbUIn4DoKR0QHukICoCA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=452&vpy=189&dur=493&hovh=176&hovw=172&tx=115&ty=145&sig=114337366579784906972&page=1&tbnh=168&tbnw=167&start=0&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:104

Horseshoe crabs are used for bait!

Red Knots

http://featherflower.blogspot.com/2008/05/redetermined-migration-part-ii.html

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Red_knot_Delaware.jpg/640px-Red_knot_Delaware.jpg



Our horseshoe crabs will be released in May!

Thank you to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources for providing the slides with the blue background.