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Photo of the Day #226: Horseshoe Crab

By laelaps on May 23, 2008.

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A horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), crawling along just below the tide line. (Photographed May 17, 2008 at Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware.)


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