Horseshoe Crab

Did you know?

Horseshoe crabs are not crabs at all.

They have nine eyes and seven pairs of legs.

The horseshoe crab shell is used to make filaments for suturing and wound dressing for burn victims reducing healing time by 35 to 50 percent.

Horseshoe crab blood is very important to medicine and research.

Horseshoe crabs play an important ecological role in the food web for migrating shore birds and the Loggerhead turtle.

Native Americans tipped their fish spears with horseshoe crab tails, and their remains have been found in the kitchen middens of coastal Indians.