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Horseshoe Crab

Limulus polyphemus

Photo by Mandy Hollman
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Description:

Exoskeletons from molting horseshoe crabs washed up on the beach.
I thought they were dead horseshoe crabs at first, but these were hollow shells with the fronts split open where the animals crawled out during their annual molt.

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Atlantic horseshoe crab

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PublishedNovember 27, 2015

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