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- The horseshoe crab has also been called the
king crab, soldier crab, helmet crab and horse foot crab.
True or False - The horseshoe crab is an arthropod, which means it has jointed legs. True or False
- Horseshoe crabs appear so far back in the geological record that they are sometimes called "living fossils". True or False
- The horseshoe crab was around 100 Million years before the dinosaurs. True or False
- Horseshoe crabs have ten eyes.
True or False - A female horseshoe crab may lay up to 100,000
eggs per year.
True or False - The horseshoe crab breathes using "book
gills," thin membranes that look like the pages in a book.
True or False - The scientific name of the horseshoe crab,
Limulus polyphemus, comes from the Latin for "side-looking
Cyclops".
True or False - The horseshoe crab's shell is made of a hard
material called chitin.
True or False - Delaware Bay is the horseshoe crab capital
of the world.
True or False - The horseshoe crab's blood has copper in
it and is greenish-blue in color.
True or False - It has been said that "when somebody
drops the 'bomb',
two things will survive -- cockroaches and horseshoe crabs."
True or False
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