Basics - Harvesting Horseshoe Crabs for Bait May Be Taking a Toll on Population by Natalie Angier - NYTimes.com

Read original… Horseshoe crabs may look ancient and alien and battery-operated, they may look like Wilma Flintstone’s idea of a Roomba vacuum cleaner, yet to the sixth-grade students from Columbus School in nearby Bridgeport, the most outrageous thing about the bronze-helmeted creatures crawling clumsily along the beach was not their appearance but their size — or rather sizes. One boy pointed to a linked pair of horseshoe crabs, a relatively compact specimen maybe seven inches across clin
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