Clockwise, from top left: A bottle of blue blood harvested
from horseshoe crabs at Charles River Laboratories in
Charleston, South Carolina. Their ridged exoskeletons,
pointy tails, and spider-like legs can make them appear
sinister, but horseshoe crabs are nonaggressive. The
venous system of the horseshoe crab. Beachgoers inspect
the underside of a live horseshoe crab in New Jersey.
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