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Creation Day 5 God creates animal life in Earth's waters and skies Genesis 1:20-21
Meet the horseshoe crab - A Cambrian animal that also defies evolution!
If you thought the trilobite was interesting, wait until you read these amazing facts about the horseshoe crab.
Check out the pictures above. Horseshoe crabs are known as “living fossils.” They have been on Earth nearly unchanged for at least 445 million years, even before the dinosaurs existed.
Their smooth, hard shells (exoskeletons) are shaped like a horseshoe (thus the name horseshoe ).
The horseshoe crab's long spiny tail is used as rudders in the water and to flip themselves if they get overturned on the beach.
Despite their common name, horseshoe crabs are not really crabs (crustaceans). Horseshoe crabs belong to the class of arthropods (meaning jointed legs) known as arachnids. All arachnids (including spiders and scorpions) have eight or more jointed legs, and unlike insects (which have six jointed legs), arachnids don't have antennae.
God created horseshoe crabs with 10 unique eyes. The most obvious eyes are a pair of large compound eyes on each side of the shell, used primarily for finding mates. There are 5 additional eyes on the top of its shell, each detects UV light from the sun during the day and reflected light from the moon at night. God also created horseshoe crabs with blue, copper-based blood that quickly clots and kills all bacterial toxins. Medical researchers use the blue blood from horseshoe crabs to test intravenous drugs, vaccines, and to ensure that all medical devices are free of bacteria.
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