The GuardianUK News & Comment• 1 min read
‘Living fossil’: the blue-blood arthropod that has changed little in 445m years
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Tenacious and confounding, the horseshoe crab pre-dates dinosaurs and has copper-based blood vital to vaccine safety They pre-date dinosaurs, eat food using their legs and contain blue blood that we use to keep us healthy.
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