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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's horseshoe crabs! One of only a handful of "living fossils" left on Earth, these sea creatures are more related to spiders than true crabs. Uncover their unmatched significance to the medical community as well as coastal ecosystems. Investigate horseshoe crab anatomy and hypothesize how they have survived, unchanged, for over 400 million years. Examine fossils and compare them to locally collected specimens. Nobody has been untouched by these magnificently underrated water-breathers. Includes: horseshoe crab catch & release, SUP, tidepooling, and snorkeling.
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