Oof, shoulda evolved.
Those ugly bastards got milked so that we could live. They really did help save our ass during the pandemic
Horseshoe crab blood is used to test vaccines for contamination.
Maryland sends its regards 🦀
At least the nautilus listened
He didn’t. All but one of his diverse descendants were wiped out along with the dinosaurs, relatively “recently”.
I mean if you want to suck the fun out of it only 4/22 of horseshoe crab species survived.
Saying any species not evolving for millions of years is a misnomer anyway. A living fossil only superficially resemble ancient species. Since both nautilus and horseshoe crabs are considered living fossils I thought it’s a fair comparison.
But this is a silly little comic ultimately about the existential dread of modern human life so this level of pedantry isn’t needed.
They are the true blue bloods of the animal kingdom, they are already at the pinnacle.
Coelacanth started going with them then stopped, figuring horse shoe crab knew what was up
Must be fun winning evolution off the hop
