Horseshoe Crab
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Horseshoe crabs are not true crabs, being more closely related to spiders and modern-day scorpions. Belonging to an ancient group of arthropods that have hardly changed appearance for 250 million years, they are the only living members of the group that included the now extinct sea scorpions.
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