Horseshoe Crab

Posted by Quality Marine Staff on December 18, 2023

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Horseshoe Crabs are commonly known as ‘living dinosaurs’ because their fossils show they lived 445 million years ago and they have not evolved much in the past 200 million years. They are actually arthropods and not true crabs, which means they are more closely related to spiders and scorpions.