From the Vault: Horseshoe Crabs
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Their fossils date back 450 million years and their copper-rich blue blood continues to benefit various medical applications. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore the science and history of horseshoe crabs. (Originally published 1/16/2020)
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| 1:41.7 | And I'm Joe McCormick, and it's Saturday, time for a vault episode. This episode originally aired |
| 1:47.4 | on January 16th, 2020, and it's about horse shoe crabs. I remember this was a lot of fun. |
| 1:53.3 | Yeah, it sounds fun, but though this is one of those when I was putting it in our schedule for the |
| 1:57.5 | vault episode, I realized I had no memory of this one at all, really. I mean, I vaguely remember |
| 2:02.4 | researching some of the stuff about the blood and the usefulness of horseshoe blood, but I really |
| 2:07.4 | don't remember this episode otherwise. I don't know why. Or remember, this episode led me to |
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