These horseshoe crabs are basically the ultimate evolutionary flex! ๐ฆ While other species are out there frantically adapting, these living fossils have been chilling in the same body design since the Ordovician period. Why fix what isn't broken, right? 445 million years of "nah, I'm good" to evolution's constant nagging! ๐คฃ
Horseshoe crabs aren't even true crabs - they're more closely related to spiders and scorpions! Their blue copper-based blood is so valuable for medical testing that we harvest it like some kind of prehistoric juice bar. Talk about being perfectly designed from the start - these underwater tanks saw the dinosaurs come and go, and just kept on scooting around being their weird horseshoe-shaped selves!