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Hey and welcome to this short stuff.

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and there's Jerry over there and this is short stuff so we

should probably get talking about this right away.

What are we talking about right now Chuck?

We're talking about an ancient primitive animal, a beast that was around before dinosaurs

that survived ice ages and that has been virtually unchanged since they made their way onto

the scene as little horseshoe crabs.

Little horseshoe crabs still around, still kicking, still virtually unchanged after I think

I saw about 450 million years.

Yeah and still when you have a child or when you were a child, when you go to the beach

and you see one for the first time, the question, what in the world is that to your parents?

Yeah and they say, stop asking questions.

They're crazy looking.

They really are crazy looking.

It looks like how do you describe a horseshoe crab?

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