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Horseshoe Crab's Eyes Offer Insight Into Human Vision
The Washington Post; 7/10/1995; John Schwartz; 787 words
; Robert Barlow sees the world through a horseshoe crab's eyes -- at least, through two of the creature's 10 light-sensing organs. And what he has seen is surprising. The lowly limulus -- not a crab at all, actually, but an arachnid (a spider cousin) -- is certainly one of nature's weirder children.
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Getting on their good side: The oft-scorned horseshoe crab is winning human friends.
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD); 8/31/2006; 787 words
; Byline: John Woestendiek Aug. 31--SLAUGHTER BEACH, Del. -- Of all the strange creatures at the beach -- jellyfish floating like ghosts in the waves, blood-sucking deer flies searching the sand for human flesh, gold chain-wearing middle-aged men prowling the nightclubs -- none has creeped out as
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Horseshoe Crabs Heading for a Crash
The Washington Post; 2/6/2000; 492 words
; The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is poised to rubber-stamp the strip mining of the horseshoe crab. And with the crash of the horseshoe crab population will go a $100 million-per- year tourism industry, the benefits of a $50 million-per-year biomedical industry, a major hemispheric
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Beauty is in the compound eye of the beholder
New Haven Register; 8/3/2006; 390 words
; Upper-grade students at St. Francis School's summer program recently took part in Project Limulus, a horseshoe crab tagging program and research project. The program was designed by Jennifer Mattei, associate professor of biology at Sacred Heart University. The program aims to understand more about
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New Demands Spur Focus on Ancient Crab
The Washington Post; 3/17/2003; Louis Jacobson; 787 words
; Horseshoe crabs have been around for more than 200 million years - - they predate flying insects, dinosaurs and humans -- but scientists know little about them. That is changing, now that the species is playing critical roles in assuring biomedical safety and in a major environmental dispute. In
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