How to Use horseshoe crab in a Sentence

horseshoe crab

noun

• As a species, the horseshoe crab is more than 425 million years old.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
• The horseshoe crab has long been overlooked and overfished.
  — Carol Motsinger, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2020
• Among the sea life present were lobsters, horseshoe crabs, and shellfish.
  — Michael Walsh, Courant Community, 3 July 2018
• That makes the closest living analogue of trilobite eyes the eyes of the horseshoe crab Limulus.
  — Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2013
• Humans owe a debt to the strange-looking, ancient horseshoe crab.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2020
• The story of the horseshoe crab is a lesson in humility.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Moonlight even sharpens the visual acuity of horseshoe crabs, which come ashore on certain nights to mate.
  — Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 21 June 2017
• 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
• Some other living fossils include the coelacanth, the horseshoe crab, and the nautilus.
  — Joseph Castro, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2011
• 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
• 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
• The birds need meaningful protection of horseshoe crab eggs to be able to recover, Niles said.
  — Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 31 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• The birds’ arrival to Delaware Bay overlaps with the yearly horseshoe crab spawning.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
• 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
• Since then, New Jersey has banned the harvest of horseshoe crabs altogether.
  — Maddy Lauria, baltimoresun.com, 22 June 2019
• For nearly 300 million years, the sea creatures resembling modern horseshoe crabs scoured the oceans.
  — Fiza Pirani, ajc, 4 May 2018
• Native fish and horseshoe crabs swim in both saltwater and freshwater pools.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
• 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
• But horseshoe crabs aren't scary, they're just misunderstood.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2019
• Cerea first heard about horseshoe crabs through her day job as a photographer for the National Audubon Society.
  — Camilla Cerea, Smithsonian, 5 July 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• At low tide, damp cordgrass dotted with horseshoe crab shells stretches for hundreds of yards in every direction.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• 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
• The horseshoe crab's new family is just further emphasizes how much left there is to discover about these creatures.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2019

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