Living Fossils, Lifesaving Science

By Christina Galt | May 26, 2026

$A female horseshoe crab buries roughly 4,000 eggs at a time in neat clusters, and over the course of a single night, she may repeat the process several times, leaving as many as 20,000 eggs. However, only a fraction of those eggs ever make it, as migratory birds and other sea creatures eat them.$

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