How to Use horseshoe crab in a Sentence
horseshoe crab
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In this account, rural people are, like horseshoe crabs, holdovers—living representatives of a distant past.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
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As a species, the horseshoe crab is more than 425 million years old.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
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The horseshoe crab has long been overlooked and overfished.
—Carol Motsinger, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2020
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Among the sea life present were lobsters, horseshoe crabs, and shellfish.
—Michael Walsh, Courant Community, 3 July 2018
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That makes the closest living analogue of trilobite eyes the eyes of the horseshoe crab Limulus.
—Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2013
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Humans owe a debt to the strange-looking, ancient horseshoe crab.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2020
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The story of the horseshoe crab is a lesson in humility.
—Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
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Most of the horseshoe crab blood is in the gills, and LAL technicians only use a small portion contained in sinus sack.
—Doug Fraser, USA TODAY, 16 June 2020
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The race to a vaccine: The horseshoe crab's fluorescent blue blood is its best line of defense against toxins.
—Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2020
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Moonlight even sharpens the visual acuity of horseshoe crabs, which come ashore on certain nights to mate.
—Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 21 June 2017
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At the same time, the ocean hosts some of the world's oldest creatures: Jellyfish have been around more than half a billion years, horseshoe crabs almost as long.
—Paul Chesley, National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2019
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Some other living fossils include the coelacanth, the horseshoe crab, and the nautilus.
—Joseph Castro, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2011
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But their utility is one of the reasons horseshoe crabs are hunted by humans, putting them at risk.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
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The morning of the P.S. 122 trip this month, the younger Mr. Mundy, who is a firefighter and volunteers on the boat, stopped at an island to pick up horseshoe crabs for the students to examine.
—Katie Honan, WSJ, 20 June 2019
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The birds need meaningful protection of horseshoe crab eggs to be able to recover, Niles said.
—Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 31 July 2023
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The Antarctic Peninsula is an 800-mile string of mountains and volcanoes that juts north from the White Continent like the tail on a horseshoe crab.
—Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
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The beach was dotted with signs of life: sea lettuce, oyster shells, horseshoe crab remains, a dark green seaweed known as dead man’s fingers.
—Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
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The birds’ arrival to Delaware Bay overlaps with the yearly horseshoe crab spawning.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
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Those estimates show there are about 25 million to 30 million adult horseshoe crabs in the Delaware Bay alone.
—Maddy Lauria, baltimoresun.com, 22 June 2019
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Since then, New Jersey has banned the harvest of horseshoe crabs altogether.
—Maddy Lauria, baltimoresun.com, 22 June 2019
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For nearly 300 million years, the sea creatures resembling modern horseshoe crabs scoured the oceans.
—Fiza Pirani, ajc, 4 May 2018
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Native fish and horseshoe crabs swim in both saltwater and freshwater pools.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
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Another ocean-dweller that’s been around as long as the sharks is the horseshoe crab, which isn’t a crab at all but an arachnid, more closely related to spiders and scorpions.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2021
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But horseshoe crabs aren't scary, they're just misunderstood.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2019
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Cerea first heard about horseshoe crabs through her day job as a photographer for the National Audubon Society.
—Camilla Cerea, Smithsonian, 5 July 2017
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Tanks are filled with fish and sea creatures; brave kids can gently (with two fingers) touch lobsters, quahogs, horseshoe crabs, sea stars, and other marine life.
—BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2018
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Anyone taking or possessing horseshoe crabs without a license can be charged with an infraction that can be paid by the U.S. mail.
—Christopher Keating, courant.com, 11 Apr. 2018
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The defendants are also barred from holding horseshoe crabs in ponds before being bled — a process that critics say kills some and weakens others.
—Jon Hurdle, New York Times, 15 June 2023
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At low tide, damp cordgrass dotted with horseshoe crab shells stretches for hundreds of yards in every direction.
—BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
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The story explains the migration and reproduction habits of the horseshoe crab and the relevance their existence has for lives outside their own.
—Guest, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2018
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